Scrubbing of Metadata for Office 2003 and Office 2007 Excel Documents

Hi All,

Scrubbing of metadata is nothing but removal of the document properties like metadata of the particular document(Document properties and personal information stored within the document). In this instance, I would like to share with you all regarding scrubbing of metadata for microsoft excel documents (Office 2003 and Office 2007).

Please find the below steps to perform scrubbing of metadata for office 2007 Microsoft excel documents:

• Open the respective microsoft excel document.
• Go to File menu –> Info tab -> Check for Issues tab -> Inspect Document.
• A Document Inspector window pops up and select the document for selected content like “Document Properities and Personal Information.”
• Click on Inspect button.
• Upon clicking the Inspect button, Document Inspector inspects for appropriate data that needs to be scrubbed.
• Once the inspection has been complete, you will see an option for “Remove all” under the selected content of “Document Properties and Personal Information.”
• Click on “Remove all.”
• Click on “Close” button in the Document Inspector window.
• Save the document.
• To verify, just right click on the selected document, select properties option and you can see blank data in the metadata fields.

Please find the below steps to perform scrubbing of metadata for office 2003 Microsoft excel documents:

• Open the respective microsoft excel document.
• Go to File menu –> Properities tab -> Inspect Document.
• A Document Inspector window pops up and select the document for selected content like “Document Properities and Personal Information.”
• Click on Inspect button.
• Upon clicking the Inspect button, Document Inspector inspects for appropriate data that needs to be scrubbed.
• Once the inspection has been complete, you will see an option for “Remove all” under the selected content of “Document Properties and Personal Information.”
• Click on “Remove all.”
• Click on “Close” button in the Document Inspector window.
• Save the document.
• To verify, just right click on the selected document, select properties option and you can see blank data in the metadata fields.