Document metadata
See what a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or PDF file says about who made it, and save a cleaned copy of Office files.
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- Author
- Last edited by
- Company
- Manager
- Title
- Subject
- Keywords
- Description
- Created
- Last changed
- Last printed
- Times saved
- Editing time (minutes)
- Software
- PDF made with
- Template
- Tracked changes
- Deleted and inserted text is still stored in the file, with the name of the person who changed it
- Comments
- Comments in the margin, with their authors' names
- Custom properties
- Extra fields added by an organisation or a program
- Embedded description
- A block with further details about how the file was made
The cleaned copy still contains tracked changes and comments. Accept or reject all changes and delete the comments in your editor before you share the file.
PDF files can be checked here but not cleaned. To remove this data, print the document to a new PDF or export it again with document properties turned off.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is sent or saved.
Good to know
Office programs and PDF exporters write your name, your organisation, the software and the dates into every file. Sources have been identified from these details.
The document is opened in your browser only. It is not uploaded, and this site can't see it.
For Word, Excel and PowerPoint files the cleaned copy has its properties emptied and the internal file dates reset. The text, formatting and pictures are not touched.
What a cleaned copy can still reveal: tracked changes and comments, names typed in the text, and hidden data inside embedded pictures. For anything sensitive, copy the text into a new, empty document.
A word about AI
It is tempting to hand a document to an AI assistant and ask it to make it anonymous or to look for hidden details. Doing so sends the whole document, text and properties alike, to that company's servers, where it may be kept and, depending on your settings and plan, read by staff or used to train models. Check and clean a document you want to protect on your own device first, and think twice about what you upload after that.