Clean up personal information in xls

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How to clean up personal information in xls

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in todayamp;#39;s video weamp;#39;re going to talk about removing personal information weamp;#39;re going to show you how to remove it from a single file and weamp;#39;ll also talk about how you might remove it from a group of files at once now letamp;#39;s look at what that information is now I have a file here and Iamp;#39;m going to go to the file menu and then go to info as you can see thereamp;#39;s a bunch of information here tied to the file I can click on show all properties and thereamp;#39;s even more information specific to this file so I might not want to send that with these things attached to it now to remove it from this file Iamp;#39;m going to go to this button right here check for issues and then choose inspect document now this is really the one that weamp;#39;re looking for to remove that personal information Iamp;#39;m just going to leave it as is and click on inspect now it did find a bunch of properties attached to this file so to remove it from this s

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How do I remove all document properties and Personal Information in PowerPoint?

Select Check for Issues Inspect Document. Select the types of content that you want to inspect, and then select Inspect. Review the results. For each type of content that you want to remove from the document, select Remove All.

How do I remove Personal Information in an Excel sheet?

On the Excel menu, click Preferences. Select the Remove personal information from this file on save check box. Save the workbook.

How do I remove all Personal Information from a file?

Identifying and Removing Metadata Right-click on the file. View its Properties. If there is metadata that you would like to remove, select the Details tab. Click Remove Properties and Personal Information.

How do I remove all Personal Information and document properties?

Click on the Check for Issues button, and then choose Inspect Document. Click on Inspect down in the bottom right corner. It will return the results, and the one you are concerned with is Document Properties and Personal Information. If you want to get rid of it, click on Remove All.

How to inspect and remove all Personal Information from this workbook?

Try it! Open the document that you want to inspect for hidden data and personal information. Select File Info. Select Check for Issues Inspect Document. Select the types of content that you want to inspect, and then select Inspect. Review the results.

How do you remove hidden properties and Personal Information from the workbook?

Use the Document Inspector to Remove Hidden Data To open the Document Inspector, click File Info Check for Issues Inspect Document. The Excel Document Inspection window shown below opens up. Click Inspect to identify hidden content, and then click Remove All to remove the item of your choice.

How do I clean up information in Excel?

The basics of cleaning your data Import the data from an external data source. Create a backup copy of the original data in a separate workbook. Ensure that the data is in a tabular format of rows and columns with: similar data in each column, all columns and rows visible, and no blank rows within the range.

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