Word DOCX Metadata Editor

View and edit metadata in Word DOCX files: title, author, subject, keywords, company, manager. Strip personal information before sharing documents.

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About Word DOCX Metadata Editor

Every Word document carries a hidden trail — author name pulled from your Microsoft 365 profile, company name from your Office install, lastModifiedBy showing whoever last touched the file, and a half-dozen extended properties about page count, edit time and the template path. For an internal memo this is fine; for a CV sent to a recruiter, a redlined contract going out to opposing counsel, or a blinded peer-review submission, it's a privacy leak. Word's own Document Inspector is the official answer, but it requires having Word installed and removes everything in one blunt sweep instead of letting you set, say, just the title and author.

This Word DOCX metadata editor handles both — view every property in the file, edit any subset to a specific value, or bulk-strip the extended properties before sharing. 15 core fields (title, subject, creator, keywords, description, lastModifiedBy, revision, category, contentStatus, language, version, identifier, created, modified, lastPrinted) and 12 extended fields (Application, AppVersion, Company, Manager, Template, TotalTime, Pages, Words, …) are individually addressable. Fields are whitelisted server-side so a hand-crafted JSON payload can't inject arbitrary XML, and only docProps/core.xml and docProps/app.xml are touched — the document body, styles, comments and revisions stay byte-identical to the original.

Use it to anonymise a CV before applying, blind a manuscript for double-blind peer review, sanitise a Word template before publishing it, scrub a contract before circulation, or replace placeholder author data with the right name after a content-team handoff. Files up to 25 MB are processed in a stateless serverless function and deleted immediately after the response.

Word DOCX Metadata Editor Use Cases

  • Job seekers anonymising CVs before uploading to recruitment portals
  • Authors blinding manuscripts for double-blind peer review submission
  • Legal teams scrubbing author and lastModifiedBy from contracts going to opposing counsel
  • Consultants replacing in-house author names with client names before delivery
  • Marketing teams removing internal company metadata from white papers and templates
  • Compliance officers auditing what hidden info sits in a document before public release
  • Publishers cleaning a Word template author before pushing it to a downloads page

Word DOCX Metadata Editor Features

  • Edit or remove 15 core properties (title, subject, creator, keywords, description, lastModifiedBy, revision, language, dates) one at a time
  • Edit or remove 12 extended properties (Application, AppVersion, Company, Manager, Template, TotalTime, Pages, Words, Characters, Lines, Paragraphs)
  • Strip-app bulk option clears the entire extended properties block in one click for fast pre-share sanitisation
  • Server-side whitelist on every field — hand-crafted JSON can't inject arbitrary XML elements into docProps
  • Only docProps/core.xml and docProps/app.xml are touched — document body, styles, comments and revisions stay byte-identical
  • Extract action shows the current values without modifying the file so you can audit before deciding what to change
  • Files up to 25 MB processed in a stateless serverless function and discarded immediately after response

How to Use Word DOCX Metadata Editor

Upload your .docx file

Drag-and-drop or click to select a Word document (up to 25 MB). Works on any .docx exported from Word 2007 onward, LibreOffice Writer, Google Docs or Pages — the underlying Open Packaging Convention is the same.

Extract to see current metadata

Click Extract. The current core and extended properties are read from docProps/core.xml and docProps/app.xml and shown in a table. Pay attention to creator, lastModifiedBy, Company and Manager — these leak the most.

Edit the fields you want to change

Type new values into the editable fields, or clear a value to remove it. Leave any field blank or unchanged to keep the original. Each field is independent — change author without touching the dates, or vice versa.

Or tick 'Strip extended properties'

For a fast pre-share sanitise, tick the strip option — it clears the entire extended-properties block (Company, Manager, Application, TotalTime and the rest) in one pass while leaving the core properties intact and editable.

Update and download

Click Update. The document is repacked with the new metadata and the body content unchanged, and offered as a fresh .docx download. Open it in Word's Document Inspector or in Properties to confirm the changes landed.

Word DOCX Metadata Editor FAQ

No. Only the two XML parts docProps/core.xml and docProps/app.xml inside the .docx package are rewritten. The document.xml body, styles.xml, comments, revisions, images, headers and footers stay byte-identical to your original. The output opens in Word with no formatting drift and you can diff the bodies with python-docx or unzip + compare if you need to verify.

25 MB. This covers the vast majority of Word documents including reports with embedded images. If a .docx is larger, it's usually because images are stored uncompressed — either compress them in Word first (Picture Format → Compress Pictures) or strip large embeds with python-docx before running the metadata edit.

Core (15): title, subject, creator, keywords, description, lastModifiedBy, revision, category, contentStatus, language, version, identifier, created, modified, lastPrinted. Extended (12): Application, AppVersion, Company, Manager, Template, TotalTime, Pages, Words, Characters, CharactersWithSpaces, Lines, Paragraphs. Custom properties and tracked-changes author names are not currently exposed — for full inspector parity, use Word's built-in Document Inspector after this pass.

Document Inspector is all-or-nothing — it removes every category of personal info you tick and runs only inside Word. This tool is field-level: you can keep the Company name but change the Author, or replace the Manager without touching the dates. Useful when you want to set new metadata for the recipient (e.g. their name as creator) rather than wipe everything to defaults. Run Document Inspector afterwards if you also want to strip comments, ink and other in-body artifacts.

It removes the entire docProps/app.xml block in one pass, which clears Application (e.g. 'Microsoft Office Word'), AppVersion, Company, Manager, Template path, TotalTime (cumulative editing minutes), Pages, Words, Characters and the rest. Useful as a fast pre-share sanitiser when you don't care which specific fields exist — you just want them gone. Core properties (author, title, dates) remain editable separately.

Files are uploaded to a stateless serverless function (rewriting the .docx package needs a real ZIP / XML pipeline) and deleted immediately after the response is sent. Nothing is logged to durable storage. For purely in-browser metadata removal a tool like PrivMeta runs WebAssembly locally; the trade-off is that field-level editing (e.g. set a specific new author) is much harder to do in the browser, which is why this tool runs server-side.

No. The .docx version history is computed from saves inside Word — it's not stored as metadata. Replacing creator and lastModifiedBy via this tool changes only the static fields. If you also need to strip tracked changes, comments or revision marks, run Word's Document Inspector afterwards or use Review → Accept All Changes and Delete All Comments in Word first.

Drop your .docx file here or click to upload

Word documents only • Max 25MB

Word DOCX Metadata Editor Tutorial

Why edit DOCX metadata?

Word documents carry hidden metadata: author name, company, last modified by, even the original template. When you share a document with a client or post it online, all of that goes with it.

  • Privacy: Strip your name, company, or organization before sharing externally
  • Whitelabel: Replace internal author info with your client's name
  • Compliance: Legal/HR teams often require metadata cleanup before delivery
  • Forensics protection: Avoid leaking who edited a document and when

How does it work?

A .docx file is just a ZIP archive containing XML files. The metadata lives in docProps/core.xml (Dublin Core fields) and docProps/app.xml (Office-specific fields). This tool reads those XML files, lets you edit the values, and rebuilds the .docx with the new metadata. Your document content is never touched.

Editable fields

Core properties (Dublin Core):

  • title, subject, creator (author)
  • keywords, description (comments)
  • lastModifiedBy, revision
  • created, modified dates (W3CDTF)
  • category, contentStatus, language

Extended properties (Office-specific):

  • Application, AppVersion, Company, Manager
  • Template, TotalTime
  • Word counts: Pages, Words, Characters

Leave a field blank to remove it entirely. Use the "Strip all" preset to wipe author info in one click.