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Document Hidden Data Remover

Find and remove names, comments, tracked changes, speaker notes and old versions hidden in Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF files. Nothing is uploaded.

Word's Document Inspector only runs on the desktop, one format at a time. This does Word, PowerPoint, Excel and PDF in the browser, and shows you what it found before anything is removed.

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Formats: DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, PDF
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Hidden data removerRuns locally
100% private: reading and cleaning happen in your browser. The file is never uploaded.
Drop a Word, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF file.docx, .pptx, .xlsx or .pdf, up to 50 MB

How it works

1

Drop in the document

A Word, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF file. It is opened in your browser and never leaves your computer.

2

See what is hiding in it

Author and editor names, company, comments and who wrote them, tracked changes, hidden text, speaker notes, template paths, attachments and earlier saved versions.

3

Choose what goes, download the clean copy

Everything you tick is removed, then the cleaned file is inspected again so you can see it worked. Your original is not touched.

Questions

Files carry more than the visible page. Proposals go out with the comment "is this price too low?", contracts with deleted clauses still inside the tracked changes, decks with speaker notes and hidden slides, PDFs with earlier versions recoverable from the file. It is how a lot of real leaks happen.

No. Reading and cleaning both happen in your browser. Nothing about the file is sent to our server.

It accepts every change, the same as Word's Accept All: insertions stay, deletions are removed for good. Review the changes first if you have not.

Deleting a sheet can break formulas that use it, and a hidden slide may be one you still want. The report lists them so you can delete them yourself in Excel or PowerPoint.

Yes. Office files are rewritten part by part, and every removed part also loses its references, so Word, PowerPoint and Excel open the result without a repair prompt. PDFs are saved fresh, which also drops earlier versions.

Usually not. Search engines show the Title field as the result title. That option is off by default and only worth ticking if the title itself gives something away.

Yes. Photos can hold GPS location, camera details and AI prompts in their EXIF data, which the EXIF and metadata remover strips. For the links inside a document, use the PDF and Word link checker.

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