Re: Tracking Word documents

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Funny you should mention this. On a related note, I ran across
a nifty little tool this afternoon that strips hidden META data
from XP/2003 Office documents, Probably nothing some of you haven't
seen before, but new to me. :-)

[snip]

This free add-in for Microsoft Office provides you with the ability to permanently remove hidden and collaboration data 
from Office documents.

Hidden and collaboration data is basically metadata that gets stored with the Office document, and includes such 
elements as author document titles, keywords, print and save dates, and the names of everybody that has reviewed and 
saved a document.

It can also include such information as your company's name and address, where the document is stored, and comments 
added. A full list of the types of information that the add-in will remove is included in the download, and it's 
amazing how much hidden data there is.


[snip]

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2151505/office-xp-remove-hidden-data

- ferg




-- "D'Aloisio, Marc" <Marc.DAloisio () ct gov> wrote:

In earlier versions of Office, Word documents were tagged with a GUID -
a unique identifier that allowed one to track a word document back to a
specific machine.  It appears to be removed from Word 2002 documents.
Does this ability to associate a document to a particular machine exist
in newer versions of Word?  The authors are easy enough to track, but I
need to track to a specific machine, if possible.

Thanks,

Marc

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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