Seems to be enough to make excel not show that info any more in the File → Properties… dialog.
#Where is the document inspector in excel zip#
xlsx file with: zip -d foo.xlsx docProps/core.xml If you’re comfortable using the command line, deleting that particular.
#Where is the document inspector in excel zip file#
When I unpack a spreadsheet file as a zip file and search for my name in the output, I find that docProps/core.xml seems to be where the metadata is stored, e.g., Remove Document Inspector Warning By VBA This example uses the BeforeSave event to set the RemovePersonalInformation property to False, which means that personal information cannot be removed and you cant get warning message. xlsx files are secretly zip files, containing mostly. It seems to me, though, that an Office-specific stack might be useful. I consulted a StackExchange question ( ) which said that I should use the SuperUser stack for Microsoft Office related questions, but since this is an Office question that is specific only to the MacOS version, I decided it would be more appropriate here. Note, I wasn't 100% sure where to post this. I am running the latest version (at the time of this posting obviously) of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Excel 16.36 (20041300) for MacOS Catalina 10.15.4. There does seem to be a way to purge metadata from a Microsoft Word file in MacOS ( Tools -> Protect Document -> Check "Remove personal information from this file on save"), but there doesn't seem to be any equivalent for Microsoft Excel.
In short, most approaches to removing metadata from Office files in Windows involve the use of the built-in Document Inspector, which doesn't seem to exist in the MacOS versions of Office apps. I have also found guides for removing metadata from Microsoft Word specifically on MacOS: I want to make sure that an Excel file I created is purged of all personal and user metadata before passing it on, for confidentiality reasons.įor Windows, there are many guides for removing personal metadata from most Office data files.
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