Take out PII in excel

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  1. Add your excel to your account by clicking the New Document and selecting how you want to add your excel file.
  2. Open your file in our editor.
  3. Make your desired edits using drag and drop tools.
  4. Once completed, click Download/Export and save your excel to your device or cloud storage.
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How to take out PII in excel

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Have you ever come across a situation where you have copied and pasted data from some place else? So letamp;#39;s say from an email or a web page into an Excel sheet and then you realize any formula you write that references this range gives you errors? You dig deeper and do some research and you find out that one common cause for this type of error is probably because thereamp;#39;re unwanted spaces there, like leading spaces or trailing spaces that were copied when you brought the data to Excel. You find out that you can use Excelamp;#39;s TRIM function to remove these additional spaces. You do that and it works 90% of the time. Everything is great until it stops to work. You copy a dataset to your Excel sheet, apply the Trim function like youamp;#39;ve always done but this time TRIM doesnamp;#39;t work. (playful sad music) Let me show you what does. (upbeat music) So here in the second example, the TRIM function wasnamp;#39;t able to remove the space. Why? The formula looks li

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Video: Remove personal data from files 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.
Click Options Trust Center Trust Center Settings. On the left, select External Content. Click the option that you want under Security settings for Linked Data Types: Enable all Linked Data Types (not recommended): Click this option if you want to create linked data types without receiving a security warning.
On the Excel menu, click Preferences. Select the Remove personal information from this file on save check box. Save the workbook.
Turning off Protected View Go to File Options. Select Trust Center Trust Center Settings Protected View. Clear the box for Enable Protected View for files originating from the internet.
Enable or disable security alerts on the Message Bar In an Office program, click the File tab. Click Options. Click Trust Center, and then click Trust Center Settings. Click Message Bar. The Message Bar Settings for all Office Applications dialog box appears.
Please try to go to File in the upper left hand corner, then Options Trust Center Trust Center Settings Privacy Options Document Inspector and un-check the check box that says Document Properties and Personal Information, then hit OK.
3 Answers Go to File in the upper left hand corner, then Options Trust Center Trust Center Settings Privacy Options. then un-check the check box that says Remove personal information from file properties on save, then hit OK.
Remove metadata from several documents Open the folder with Excel files in Windows Explorer. Highlight the files you need. Right-click and choose the Properties option in the context menu. Switch to the Details tab. Click on Remove Properties and Personal Information at the bottom of the dialog window.

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