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Hiding my identity from Word document files Jim 06-12-2007
Posted by Colin B. on June 13, 2007, 11:22 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.

Let me be clear.

If you follow the link given above, it takes you the MS download site.
If you then plug in some search terms like, say, 'hidden data,' it takes
you right to a MS-created Word plug-in to delete metadata. This seems to
be what you're looking for, no?

If it's that important that you give a completed file to the person, with
no hint of your fingerprints on it, AND requiring more formatting that RTF
can provide, then I think you have two main options:

1) Use a different format, such as HTML.
2) Use a different computer, configured to look like theirs. You could
probably set up a virtual machine with VMWare for this purpose.

I'd be fascinated to know exactly why you need to accomplish this, but
I imagine it's secret for a reason.

Colin

Posted by Walter Roberson on June 12, 2007, 12:30 pm
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>I need to write some letters for someone else as if the letters were
>written only by the other person.

>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.

Perhaps if you save the file as RTF type? That's a text-only format,
so you could edit it to review that no trace of you is left in.

I don't use Word much; in what little I've done, I think I found that
the page size information was not preserved in the RTF file, which
required that the page size be changed on the imported file -- but that's
trivial compared to the import work they have had to use before.

Posted by Jim on June 12, 2007, 1:42 pm
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>>
>>I need to write some letters for someone else as if the letters
>>were written only by the other person.
>>
>>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.
>
>
> Perhaps if you save the file as RTF type? That's a text-only
> format, so you could edit it to review that no trace of you is left
> in.
>
> I don't use Word much; in what little I've done, I think I found
> that the page size information was not preserved in the RTF file,
> which required that the page size be changed on the imported file
> -- but that's trivial compared to the import work they have had to
> use before.

I tried RTF but I hear implementations are not consistent. For my needs
there is not quite enough formatting in the RTF which I get from my RTF
editor, Crypt Edit.

Posted by Jim Watt on June 12, 2007, 3:07 pm
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>I tried RTF but I hear implementations are not consistent. For my needs
>there is not quite enough formatting in the RTF which I get from my RTF
>editor, Crypt Edit.

I thought you were using word?

Anyway .rtf is the way to go for compatibility and interchange
of documents without unwanted embedded things.


--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com

Posted by Jim on June 13, 2007, 7:07 am
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>
>>I tried RTF but I hear implementations are not consistent. For my
>>needs there is not quite enough formatting in the RTF which I get
>>from my RTF editor, Crypt Edit.
>
> I thought you were using word?
>
> Anyway .rtf is the way to go for compatibility and interchange
> of documents without unwanted embedded things.
>
>
> --
> Jim Watt
> http://www.gibnet.com

I am using word.

Seems you may not have read the whole of my posting where you see I am
replying to someone who asks if I have considered using RTF.

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