Microsoft Office Document Inspector This white paper compares two approaches to metadata management and shows that the Microsoft Office Document Inspector is significantly lacking as an enterprise-metadata management tool. The first approach is the out-of-the-box Microsoft Office Document Inspector (DI) object model. The second approach is Esquire Innovations metadata management application, iScrub. (Document metadata white papers) Read more about Microsoft Office Document Inspector
Metadata Management in Microsoft Office: How Firms Can Protect Themselves against Unintentional Disclosure and Misuse of Metadata The steady growth of electronic document exchange has intensified awareness that Microsoft Office files include metadata beyond their printable content. Unintentional disclosure can be awkward or even raise malpractice concerns. Although metadata has been used to identify, classify, and manage documents in the legal environment for many years, the level of firm-wide understanding regarding metadata management is still lacking. more...
MS Office Metadata – Microsoft Word Bookmark Metadata Microsoft Word has a powerful feature called Bookmarks. A Microsoft Word Bookmark tags a position or selection of text that you name for future reference in a document. Bookmark metadata is the actual reference in the document and its reference name. For example, you might use a bookmark to identify text that you want to revise at a later time. more...
MS Office Document Variable Metadata A document variable is stored as part of a document or template. Document variables store information about the document and can only be accessed using Visual Basic or viewed using a metadata viewer. more...
Managing Document Metadata Some types of metadata have been used for years to identify (managing document metadata), classify and manage documents in the legal environment. But even as electronic document exchange increases exponentially, and with it, awareness that most documents and files include hidden data, firmwide understanding about metadata management as a real security concern still lags.
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