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If you want to know everything there's to know about the topic, then I suggest you read all the pages that this site refers to. If you just want an easy to use tool to do the job, check out one of the following MS pages ...

• How to minimize metadata in Word 2002 - a guide on how to manually remove some of the metadata from MS Office documents
• Download page of the "Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data" tool made by Microsoft itself. You'll be required to validate you Windows copy before you can download the tool.
• Known issues with the Remove Hidden Data add-in version 1.0 for Office 2003 and Office XP
• Known issues with the Remove Hidden Data add-in version 1.1 for Office 2003 and Office XP