Be careful! Parts of your document may include personal information that can't be removed by the Document Inspector.

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Hi All

I have an Excel 2013 document that I've been using for over two months and have had no problems with editing or saving it. Today I edit it and than saved it and I received a strange looking error message "Be careful! Parts of your document may include personal information that can't be removed by the Document Inspector."

I have tried to find out any information on what it might be, by using Bing and Google without any success. It looks like I'm the only one who has received this error message. I hope it's not a virus!

Please help

Colin

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Anonymous

I had the same problem, it's incredibly annoying and there's strangely little posted about it on the interwebs. Anyway, here's how you fix it: Goto 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. Hope that helps.

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2015-04-09T17:10:24+00:00

thanks a lot
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2014-08-27T21:08:42+00:00

Thanks for the tip GodeEscherBob! This pop-up was annoying me for the last two days.
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Anonymous

2014-08-23T18:44:55+00:00

Excellent, thanks for this.

I did it and it works great
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2014-05-05T05:46:47+00:00

thanks! that did it
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