Change Author in multiple documents

Question

Hi Guys,

A friend of mine installed Office for Mac for me a while ago and filled in his own name as the standard author for documents. Just now I notice that all documents I've made since then have his name in the Author field. I've already changed the name for future documents and I know how to change the name in a single document, but is there a way to batch change the author information on multiple documents? Would save me a lot of time! I've already looked in the script menu and also tried Automator but no luck.

Any help would be very much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Answer 1

There is if you are prepared to hack a bit of VBA (I believe you could also do it in AppleScript).

But the easiest way would be to turn on the "Remove personal information from this file" command in Word>Preferences>Security.

If you turn that on for each document, when you save it, his name will be stripped.

You should also go to Word>Preferences>User Information and ensure YOUR name is filled in there, so new documents are created with your name, not his.

I suspect that will get you where you need to be, without having to spend a couple of days learning VBA :-)

Cheers