When you save a document, it may contain information that you do not want others to see. For example, the name of your computer or a document summary may be included in the file. This information is known as metadata, which is data used to identify, describe, and locate electronic resources on a network. Metadata is used to enhance the editing, viewing, filing, and retrieving of electronic documents. It is important to keep this information stored in the original document, but you can avoid sharing the metadata with others by saving a version of the document without including the metadata.

This feature is new to WordPerfect® X3.

To save a document without metadata:

1. Click File,  Save without metadata.
2. Enable the Keep original document open check box. If the Keep original document open check box is not enabled, the original document closes, and the metadata-free version remains open. Choose the drive and folder in which you want to save the document.
3. By default, _mtd is added to the filename to identify that the file does not contain metadata.
4. In the Select metadata to remove area, enable any of the following check boxes:

 •  Comment information
 •  Hidden text
 •  Annotations
 •  Undo/redo history
 •  Document summary data
 •  Headers
 •  Footers
 •  Hyperlinks
 •  OLE object information
 •  Routing slip

 

    5.   Click Save.