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Clean a Word
document

Blanks the author and company, drops reviewer comments, accepts insertions and rejects deletions — without needing Word.

Drop a file to see what is inside it

Get a privacy score, a plain-English list of what it gives away, and a clean copy. Read from your disk, never uploaded.

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What you would actually see

An illustration of a typical result. No real file, name or location is used.

Before — what you would be sending
offer-letter.docxDOCX
  • Original author a.whitfield
  • Last edited by r.mehta
  • Company Northgate Partners LLP
After cleaning
offer-letter-clean.docxDOCX
  • Original author removed
  • Last edited by removed
  • Company removed
Opens in Word normally. Body text, styles and images all preserved.

What happens to the file

The archive is unpacked, the document properties are blanked, the comment parts are removed, tracked insertions are accepted and tracked deletions are removed, editor names are cleared, and the whole thing is repacked. The result opens in Word normally with your text intact.

Why not just use Document Inspector

You should, when you have Word open. It is thorough and it is built in. This exists for the times you do not — on a phone, on someone else's machine, or when you have received a file and want to know what is in it before you open it in anything.

Check before you clean

The report is worth reading first. Seeing that a document you are about to forward contains eleven tracked deletions and a comment from a colleague is more useful than silently removing them.

In practice

What accepting and rejecting means for your text

Cleaning a Word document here does what accepting all changes does: tracked insertions become ordinary text, and tracked deletions are removed along with the text they were hiding. The result is the document as it currently reads on screen with markup turned off. If you actually wanted the deleted text back, take a copy before cleaning, because the operation is not reversible from the cleaned file.

The older .doc format

Files ending in .doc are a different format entirely — a binary container from the 1990s rather than a ZIP of XML — and they cannot be cleaned here. They are also worse from a disclosure point of view, because that format has historically retained fragments of deleted content in unused areas of the file. If you have a .doc that matters, open it and save it as .docx first, then clean that.

Rebuilding the archive safely

Because a .docx is an archive, cleaning means unpacking it, editing a few XML parts, and packing it again. The risk is in the packing: get a checksum or a length field wrong and Word refuses to open the file. The properties are blanked in place within each XML part, keeping every namespace declaration intact, because dropping a namespace attribute while emptying an element is a reliable way to produce a document that will not open.

Common questions

Will cleaning change my document's text?

Tracked insertions become normal text and tracked deletions are removed, which is the same as accepting all changes. Everything else is untouched.

Does this work on .doc files?

No. Only the modern .docx format, which is a zip archive. Save the older format as .docx first.

Can I clean a document without Microsoft Word installed?

Yes. This page does it in the browser with no software required.