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I create PDF invoices for my clients from a template I created in Excel. Rather annoyingly, Excel is auto-populating my name in the 'Author' field for the PDF document. The only way to remove it is to edit the PDF document afterwards and manually remove it from document properties.

However, this causes obvious differences in [file creation date] -> [file modifed date] and I want to preserve these two dates as the same.

I've been looking this up for hours and can't find any solution. Anyone ever find a fix for this? I see it being a persistent problem with many other users too in various forums. It's a trust and privacy issue and I'm surprised this 'feature' seemingly cannot be turned off.

Dirkrs
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Two options:

  • Change the user name in Excel or leave it blank
    Look in Excel for something like Settings > General > Personalize
  • Use your system's Print-to-PDF instead of the Excel Save-as-PDF function
    If your system doesn't natively have this feature, install a PDF printer driver.

If you had given us some info about your setup (Mac/Windows/Linux? which version? what version of Excel?), I could give you more specific instructions.

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