Deleting document properties

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How I can deleting all document properties with Aspose.Words like Microsoft Office 2007 “Document Inspector” command? I tried to use

document.BuiltInDocumentProperties.Clear();
document.CustomDocumentProperties.Clear();

but after saving it (in DOCX as sample) after checking document properties in Microsoft Word 2007 (SP2) Document Inspector find some properties:

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Hi Alexander,

Thanks for your request. It is impossible to remove all built-in document properties, MS Word does not do so as well. It seems Document Inspector tells that there are properties or personal information, if built-in document properties are not updated. For example here what Aspose.Words writes into the document (I used WML document for testing):

<o:DocumentProperties>
<o:Revision>0</o:Revision>
<o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime>
<o:Pages>0</o:Pages>
<o:Words>0</o:Words>
<o:Characters>0</o:Characters>
<o:Lines>0</o:Lines>
<o:Paragraphs>0</o:Paragraphs>
<o:CharactersWithSpaces>0</o:CharactersWithSpaces>
<o:Version>0.0000</o:Version>
</o:DocumentProperties>

And here is what MS Word writes, when I click “Remove All” in Document Inspector:

<o:DocumentProperties>
<o:Revision>1</o:Revision>
<o:TotalTime>0</o:TotalTime>
<o:Created>2009-07-03T11:49:00Z</o:Created>
<o:LastSaved>2009-07-03T11:49:00Z</o:LastSaved>
<o:Pages>1</o:Pages>
<o:Words>0</o:Words>
<o:Characters>0</o:Characters>
<o:Lines>1</o:Lines>
<o:Paragraphs>1</o:Paragraphs>
<o:CharactersWithSpaces>0</o:CharactersWithSpaces>
<o:Version>12</o:Version>
</o:DocumentProperties>

As you can see, MS Word just updates values of built-in document properties.

Best regards.

3

Thanks a lot for example. And have last question: if I “Remove all properties” from Microsoft Word Document Inspector and save document, after reopening Document Inspector doesn’t find them again. May be some flag in document?

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Yes, it seems Ms Word also writes flag in docPr:

<w:docPr>
<w:view w:val="print" />
<w:zoom w:percent="100" />
<w:removePersonalInformation />

Best regards.

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Can you add this flag when clearing document properties?

6

Thanks for your inquiry, Alexander. We will consider adding such feature in Aspose.Words.

Best regards.