Remove all authors name from Excel

[navic]

At this link I did not get an answer to my question.
Maybe I'll have more luck in this forum.

It is common knowledge that with SaveAs in the (MS Office) window you have the option to enter the author before saving the Workbook.
Just type in one letter and Excel will list all the authors that begin with the letter (for all the files you once ran).

How to remove all these author names in Excel program (MS Office 2013)?
Is that possible?
Please help with explane or some web-link to instructions.

 

[RoryA]

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Question: Why?
In this list of authors, there are all the names that were stored in each Office file that I started. Over time, that list has increased. Which will get me hundreds and hundreds of author names on the list. I want to delete those names. I hope you understood me.

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That really just repeats that you want to do it; it doesn't really explain why?

In any event, it certainly isn't stored in the registry in plain text, or in any other file I can locate, so I suspect it's encrypted somewhere, probably in a central Office folder as the list appears to be shared by other Office apps.

 

[navic]

Ok @Peter_SSs
Here is the screenshots.
If the forum moderator thinks that it is not allowed to post a screenshot here, please delete it.
btw: I don't know how to set 'ss' differently.
@RoryA
I don't want a few hundred unnecessary names on that list. That's why.

 

[navic]

Addition:
I asked the same question on the link.

 

[navic]

[SOLVED] - Re: Remove all authors name from Excel

I had a B.S.O.D on my computer.
After reinstalling the system, I returned several Excel files to the "MyDocuments" folder.
The 'Windows Index Search Engine' indexed these few files and the author names appeared in the list.

Conclusion:
This meta data of all author names is in 'Windows Index Search Engine'
path: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb"

 

[Jaafar Tribak]

Re: [SOLVED] - Re: Remove all authors name from Excel

I had a B.S.O.D on my computer.
After reinstalling the system, I returned several Excel files to the "MyDocuments" folder.
The 'Windows Index Search Engine' indexed these few files and the author names appeared in the list.

Conclusion:
This meta data of all author names is in 'Windows Index Search Engine'
path: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb"

Thanks for letting us know .

Here is a webpage that explains how to handle the Windows Search Service Database File via the UI.
https://windowsreport.com/windows-edb-file-huge-windows-10/

 

[Peter_SSs]

Re: [SOLVED] - Re: Remove all authors name from Excel

Conclusion:
This meta data of all author names is in 'Windows Index Search Engine'
path: "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb"

Here is a webpage that explains how to handle the Windows Search Service Database File via the UI.
https://windowsreport.com/windows-edb-file-huge-windows-10/

Thanks both. I have reduced my list (& file size) by about 94%.