--- title: "DOCX Metadata Remover" description: "Remove the author, last editor, company, template and editing time a Word document carries in its properties. The file is read and rebuilt in your browser and never uploaded." url: https://findutils.com/security/docx-metadata-remover/ category: security --- # DOCX Metadata Remover Remove the author, last editor, company, template and editing time a Word document carries in its properties. The file is read and rebuilt in your browser and never uploaded. **Use this tool:** [DOCX Metadata Remover](https://findutils.com/security/docx-metadata-remover/) ## Programmatic access - Browser-only: this tool works on a file, the DOM, or a browser API and has no REST or MCP id. ## What does a Word file say about you? Every .docx carries a set of properties you never typed. Word fills in the author from whoever installed it, the last editor from whoever saved it last, the company from the licence, and the template from the file it was based on — which is often the most revealing of the lot, because an internal template name tells a reader which process produced the document. It also records how many minutes the file has been open and how many times it has been saved. None of this appears on the page, all of it survives Save As and emailing, and most people find out it is there when someone else points it out. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is my document uploaded? No. The file is read in your browser with the File API and rebuilt in the tab. Nothing is sent to a server and nothing is stored. You can confirm it by watching your browser's network tab while you use the page — which is worth doing, because it is the whole reason this runs locally. ### Exactly which properties are removed? From core properties: author, last modified by, title, subject, comments, keywords, category, revision number, and the created, modified and last-printed dates. From application properties: company, manager, template, total editing time, application and application version. The page lists what each of your files actually carried before it cleared them. ### Does it remove tracked changes and comments? No, and that is deliberate. Tracked changes and comments are part of the document's content, not properties of the file, and removing them would change what the document says. Accept or reject them in Word before sharing. The names attached to them are not touched either. ### Will the document still look the same? Yes. Only the two property parts are rewritten. The text, images, styles, numbering, fonts and page layout are copied across unchanged and are not re-encoded, so the file renders exactly as it did. ### Can it handle an old .doc file? No. The legacy .doc format is a compound binary file rather than a zip, and it stores its properties completely differently. Open it in Word and save it as .docx first. ### Why are the properties emptied rather than deleted? Because some readers treat a document with missing required core properties as damaged, particularly when an element carrying an expected type attribute disappears. Keeping the element and clearing its value is valid, safe, and says nothing. ### Can I clean several documents at once? Yes. Drop as many as you like; each is processed separately and reports what it carried, and more than one comes back together as a ZIP. ### How is this different from the EXIF Remover? Same idea, different file type. The EXIF Remover strips camera model, settings and GPS coordinates from photographs; this strips authorship and editing history from Word documents. ### Is there a file size limit? 100 MB, which is far larger than a normal Word document. The limit exists because the browser holds both the original and the rebuilt file in memory. ## Related Tools - [DOCX Comments Extractor](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-comments-extractor/) - [EXIF Remover](https://findutils.com/security/exif-remover/) - [DOCX to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-markdown/) - [DOCX to HTML](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-html/) - [Word to PDF Converter](https://findutils.com/convert/word-to-pdf/) - [Data Sanitizer](https://findutils.com/security/data-sanitizer/) - [Clean ZIP](https://findutils.com/convert/clean-zip/)