At the very bottom of the dialogue box, you find a section on “Privacy” and a checkbox for “Remove personal information from this file on save.”Ĭheck this box and the next time you hit “Save,” your personal information will no longer show up in the normal places in the Word file.Īny Track Changes you’ve made will now be identified as “Author,” instead of your user ID name, and your ID should not appear as the author in the files “Properties Summary” box (which you can access from the File menu). In 2016, open the “Tools” menu and select the “Protect Document” option. The good news is that Word 2016 does retain this option, but it has moved this checkbox option far from its 2011 location, which was under Word/Preferences/Security. Can you make Word 2016 “remove personal information from this file on save”? When a number of people are working in one document, it can be helpful that Word shows you the identity of each user employing Track Changes.īut sometimes, you would prefer that your user identity not be retained in a file. How Do I Remove Personal Information from a File?

So What I Learned This Week in Editing again is about a changed feature in Word 2016. My recent update to from Microsoft Word 2011 to to 2016 (for Mac) continues to offer many chances to learn something new.