Hi,



Whenever an object (e.g. an external image) is inserted from an ext. file into the MS Word document, the Word automatically stores the file path as a hidden "alternative text" of the image object.

Depending on the context, this functionality might strongly violate the user's privacy and data confidentiality, because the third person receiving the document (e.g. for editorial postprocessing) will see the full paths to the images included in this document, which, again depending on the context, might contain sensitive information.

This alt. text can only be removed manually for each object in "Format Figure..." \ "Alt Text" \ "Description". For large documents with hundreds of figures, the probability of a human mistake is very high.

Can this functionality be turned off by some option?

I mean, can the external image file be somehow inserted into MS Word document so that the file path is NOT stored in alternative text field?

There are several threads discussing the same issue for various MS Office Products, e.g.:

http://superuser.com/questions/40426...rom-powerpoint

https://social.technet.microsoft.com...um=officeitpro

There are solutions capable to remove this hidden text during the conversion to PDF. Unfortunately, there's still no solution how to remove these hidden alternative text from the Word document itself, except for clicking manually through every image in the document.

Any idea how to turn this "feature" off?

Regards,
Sergey

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