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Online .pdf displays as Microsoft Word - xxxxxxx.doc in Browser Title

Anonymous
2012-11-26T17:28:01+00:00

We have a pdf posted online that has a Web Page Title that includes Microsoft Word - and ends with .doc when viewed on a mobile device. I understand that this is part of the meta data, and cannot find a place to modify this. Firstly it is annoying that the .doc suffix would be included on a .pdf and Secondly, how do I remove the Microsoft Word Prefix. 

I tried to change the web options preferences, and under web page title no matter what is inputted we still get Microsoft Word and .doc displayed as part of the title name. I just need to change the title. Under get info in finder the title is listed as the same thing.... of course this is not the file name, I am having no issues with that.

Hopefully this makes sense, I need to change the title name, not the file name. It needs to not say Microsoft Word in the title and not be appended with .doc as it is a .pdf and is reflected as a .pdf in it's file name. Please help... this cannot remain on our website in this manner.

It's probably that I am so frustrated now, I may have put this in the wrong forum, this is for Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-11-28T23:43:55+00:00

    Hello

    I think I have a couple options for you.

    The first - 

    • Open your Word document
    • Click on File - Print, then down at the bottom, click "pdf" and then select "save as pdf". The next prompt will allow you to designate the "Title" that you want to use - instead of Microsoft Word - filename.doc as a default when using the 'save as' pdf.

    The other option would be to edit the pdf file in a pdf editor. But the Word option should take care of this issue.

    Thanks...

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-10-20T14:58:29+00:00

    I typically change these things after the fact in Acrobat Pro. You could use PDF Attribute too (free on the Mac App Store).
    Word provides extremely limited resources when it comes to the generation of the meta-data in the PDFs.
     Corentin

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-10-20T11:01:49+00:00

    This does not work in Word 2016 anymore.

    The PDF Export also does not respect the DOCs own properties like "title". It always uses the filename as the PDFs meta title. What a useless exporter that is.

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-11-28T19:28:20+00:00

    Hello Ross

    I cannot answer your question, but have some questions for you, to help someone help you.

    BTW - your thread was moved into Mac office - Word forums.

    1. How is the file saved to the website?
    2. What is the name of the actual file - did you save as a .pdf within Word? So the filename would be "filename".pdf?
    3. What mobile device is being used to access the file and how are they accessing the file?

    There are probably some other questions that need to be asked, but just wanted to get your thread looked at again.

    Thanks...

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  5. Anonymous
    2012-11-26T21:23:15+00:00

    So no one knows how to change this meta data?

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