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Bulk altering MS office metadata

  • 12-03-2011 1:09pm
    #1
    oeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys.
    I'm looking for tool to bulk change the metadata that MS office creates. Specifically, the last printed, last accessed and created dates. I can do it file by file by altering the system clock, but I have about 300 files to change and I don't want to have to print them all. Google is not giving me much.

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    BaconZombie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,813 ✭✭✭BaconZombie


    What are you trying to achieve?
    oeb wrote: »
    Hey guys.
    I'm looking for tool to bulk change the metadata that MS office creates. Specifically, the last printed, last accessed and created dates. I can do it file by file by altering the system clock, but I have about 300 files to change and I don't want to have to print them all. Google is not giving me much.

    Cheers.


  • #3
    oeb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    BaconZombie wrote: »
    What are you trying to achieve?

    I ended up using a utility found here. That stripped out the meta data for me, which was close enough to what I needed.

    As I said, I simply wanted to alter the metadata associated with office documents. If, in windows, you right click on an office file, choose properties, and choose the details tab, it shows some of the information that microsoft office adds to your documents without your knowledge. This ranges from your name to the date the document was last printed.

    I needed this changed, but I could not find anything that would do it reliably, so I just stripped it instead.


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