Hi, does anyone know how I can write metadata to a Microsoft office document? doc, docx, xls, xlsx, etc.
"With Microsoft Office" would be the obvious answer.
- Phil
Yes, but I need to do it programatically on a Linux box. I would like to be able to use Exiftool if possible.
Right. Well I can only say that ExifTool won't do this for you. Sorry, but I'm not familiar with any software to do this.
- Phil
Why won't exiftool do this?
It's a cost/benefit problem. The cost is my time and effort adding the feature, and the benefit is to the people who would find this useful.
Since I can't recall anyone ever requesting this feature before, the benefit would be low.
- Phil
Dear Phil,
I would like to raise my hand for requesting this function. ::) Currently I have to clean indd, pdf, docx and xlsx files but the 2 last ones are seemingly impossible for me. Exiftool is a very brilliant and handy tool, I love to use it. Thank you for it. It is just, would be even more awsome if it could clean the MS Office files as well. I find the data in it disturbing for some documents I wish to work with.
Thanks again!
Bert
Hi Bert,
Noted.
But I should also point out that ExifTool doesn't clean PDF files. See point number 2 here (https://exiftool.org/TagNames/PDF.html).
- Phil
Good morning,
For some business reasons, I'd like managing XMP in .docx and .xlsx.
Since these formats are wrappers (.zip with a different extension), I supposed at first it is not too much complicated...
Unfortunately, it seems that Word/Excel cannot display, edit and even keep custom XML (as it was the case in early 2007), for patent reasons.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6577713/word-2010-custom-xml
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/12/22/On-Custom-XML
If you have more up to date informations, don't hesitate to share them.
Regards,
Jeff