![]() | Help protect your privacy |
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By using Office, you can quickly assemble, display, and share your data with other people, and take steps to protect your privacy, too.
Do any of the following:
![]() | Specify the personal information that appears in all your Office documents |
To help maintain the level of privacy that you want, you can edit or remove any of the author and contact information that is associated with Office documents. The author and contact information that you specify automatically appears in all your Office documents, including those that you share with other people, unless you remove your personal information from a document.
On the Word menu, click Preferences.
Under Personal Settings, click User Information .
Make the changes that you want.
![]() | Note When you update the information in one Office application, the information is automatically updated for all Office applications. |
![]() | Remove personal information from a document |
If you share a document with other people, you can remove personal information, such as author name and company, that Office automatically adds to a document.
On the Word menu, click Preferences.
Under Personal Settings, click Security .
Under Privacy options, select the Remove personal information from this file on save check box.
Save the document.
![]() | Note The following personal information is removed from your file: |
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![]() | Turn off tracking of recently used documents |
On the File menu, the Open Recent command lists the documents that you recently opened. You can hide this menu option so that other people who use your computer can't see the list of recently used documents.
On the Word menu, click Preferences.
Under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click General .
Clear the Track recently opened documents check box.