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Remove personal or hidden information

Applies to: Microsoft Office Access 2003

Before you give others a copy of your database, project, or data access page, it's a good idea to review personal and hidden information, and decide whether it's appropriate to include. For example, if you entered personal information, such as your name or e-mail address, when you registered your software, some Microsoft Office documents store that information as part of the file. Information contained in file properties and any custom properties that you add to the file, such as an "author" or "owner" field, are also not automatically removed.

You may want to remove personal information from the file and from the file properties before you share it with others.

Show Remove personal information from an Access file

On the Tools menu, click Options.
On the General tab, select the Remove personal information from this file check box.

Show Remove personal information from a data access page

Open the data access page in Design view (Design view: A window that shows the design of these database objects: tables, queries, forms, reports, macros, and data access pages. In Design view, you can create new database objects and modify the design of existing ones.).
On the Edit menu, click Select Page.
If the property sheet isn't visible, click Properties on the Page Design toolbar.
On the Other tab, set the RemoveFileProperties property to True.

Your documents and Microsoft

Unless you send your document to Microsoft, Microsoft does not have access to any information in your document.