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Hiding my identity from Word document files Jim 06-12-2007
Posted by Jim on June 12, 2007, 12:02 pm
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Is there a security utility which can help me with the following?

I need to write some letters for someone else as if the letters were
written only by the other person. I use my PC to write the leter and
will email the other person a Word DOC file to use on their PC. We both
use Word 2003 on WinXP.

However I do not want the DOC file I send to show that I have been
involved in any way at all.

(a) I do not want data in File > Properties.
(b) I do not want to have my default margins, font, etc.
(c) I don't want the document file to have other data which has from
elsewhere on my PC (perhaps temp data).

----

Until now I have been sending them unformatted text but this means the
other person has to paste it into Word and then lay it all out and put
in all the formatting for empahsis.

Is there some software which will strip out the identifiers in a Word
DOC file to anonymise it?

Do I need to use some Word function to have two different sets of
default layout? (See b above.)

Posted by Sebastian G. on June 12, 2007, 12:27 pm
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Jim wrote:


> Is there some software which will strip out the identifiers in a Word
> DOC file to anonymise it?


Yes.

No, I'm not gonna search the link at <https://www.microsoft.com/downloads>
for you.

Posted by Jim on June 12, 2007, 1:44 pm
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> Jim wrote:
>
>
>> Is there some software which will strip out the identifiers in a
>> Word DOC file to anonymise it?
>
>
> Yes.
>
> No, I'm not gonna search the link at
> <https://www.microsoft.com/downloads> for you.

Good job you don't want to as there is nothing there. Heh!

Posted by Colin B. on June 12, 2007, 2:31 pm
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>
>> Jim wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Is there some software which will strip out the identifiers in a
>>> Word DOC file to anonymise it?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> No, I'm not gonna search the link at
>> <https://www.microsoft.com/downloads> for you.
>
> Good job you don't want to as there is nothing there. Heh!

There is for me. If this is too difficult for you, you're in trouble.

Posted by Jim on June 13, 2007, 7:11 am
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>>
>>> Jim wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Is there some software which will strip out the identifiers in a
>>>> Word DOC file to anonymise it?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> No, I'm not gonna search the link at
>>> <https://www.microsoft.com/downloads> for you.
>>
>> Good job you don't want to as there is nothing there. Heh!
>
> There is for me. If this is too difficult for you, you're in trouble.
>

I think I am. I guess that's why I have asked for help. I just don't
know everything about computing or word processing.

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