De-personalizing a Word Document

When you email or FTP a Word document, you also transmit lots of personal information, like your name, your company's name, the name of the person who last saved the document, and more. If you don't want to include all of this information in your document, open the document in Word and follow these steps:

• Click File / Properties. In the Properties dialog box, go to the Summary tab. Make sure that the Title, Subject, Author, Manager, Company, and other fields contain the information you want. Click OK.
• Click File / Properties again. Go to the Contents tab and confirm that the document's title is as you want it. (If you changed the document's title on the Summary tab, but you didn't click OK afterward, the Contents tab will display the old title.) If the title is incorrect, return to the Summary tab and change it there.
• In the Properties dialog box, go to the Statistics tab. The Statistics may include the name of the user who last saved the document. To remove that name, follow these steps:
  • Close the Properties dialog box.
  • Click to Tools / Options. In the Security tab, under Privacy Options, find the checkbox that says "Remove personal information from file properties on save" and check it. Click OK.
  • Save the document. Then click File / Properties again, go to the Statistics tab, and confirm that your name is gone.