How to Remove Last Modified by Author in MS Word Document

Microsoft Word documents have some metadata in them when saved. These details are used for identification on the document such as when the document was created, who the author is, the date it was modified, etc. It also has other information like number of characters, number of words, number of paragraphs, etc. In case you might want to remove the author or last modified information or any other information so that others don't know those values there is a way. In this article, let's see how to remove the author and last revision information for a document.

Remove The Author And The Last Modified Information In Microsoft Word Document

1. Go to the location where you have saved the Microsoft document that needs a change for the last modified information

2. Right-click on the document and from the appeared list click on the properties

3. In the opened window, go to the details tab

4. At the bottom, click on remove properties and personal information

5. Select the option remove the following properties from this file by clicking on the radio button beside it

6. Now under the origin section select authors, last saved by, manager by clicking on the checkbox beside them (a tick mark should be present)

7. Click on ok

Note: If you want to remove information from other fields as well then you can also select and tick mark the required field

8. Once you click on ok, you can observe that the values from the selected fields are removed.

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Bulk Remove The Author And The Last Modified Information In Microsoft Word Document

1. Put all the word documents that needs the author and last modified information to be removed in one folder

2. Open the folder and select the documents at once. Do so press Ctrl + A keys together

3. Right click on the selected documents and from the appeared list click on the properties

4. Follow the same steps mentioned in the above method [ Step 3 to Step 7 ] and it is done.

That’s it! Isn’t it simple and straight forward? I hope the above provided information is helpful and easy to understand. Thank you for reading!!