You should see the following “Document properties and personal information were successfully removed” message. Click Remove All button to clear the Document Properties and Author details. Step 4: If your document contains Personal Information like Author then the following warning message will be displayed. This would start inspecting your document. Step 3: Click the Inspect button in Document Inspector window. Step 2: In the Info screen, navigate to Inspect Document section and select Inspect Document from Check for Issues dropdown. Step 1: After Creating/Editing the document, click File menu then Info menu. Listed below are the steps for removing the author’s name from document properties. How to remove author’s name from document properties Similarly if you navigate to File > Info, the Related People section should display the following information. If you have created a word document, right click on the file and selecting properties > Details tab should display the author’s name.
Word 2016 & 2013 users have an option to remove the author name that is displayed as part of File Properties.