Any changes you made are saved automatically. View or create custom properties for a file Custom properties are properties that you define for an Office document. For example, you can search for all files created after August 3, 2005, or for all files that were last changed yesterday. Mike4003 Is that what you said works for your users? Being used by 110,000 elites and 300+ well-known companies. You can choose from a list of suggested names or define your own. The added benefit to this is the file is saved automatically when changes are made.
Document properties include details such as title, author name, subject, and keywords that identify the document's topic or contents. To view custom properties, click the Custom tab in the Properties dialog box. In these last two versions they are hidden deeper, but it won't take you much time to dig them out. Now this page will show. No matter what your case is, it shall do you no harm to learn ways to delete or change personal information on computer or digital documents, especially in an age when privacy breaches happen all the time. You can easily find out the Document Properties in Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 365 following your use habit adopted in Excel 2003. This article will show you how to add or change document author and document properties with following methods.
Any changes you made will be saved automatically. Demo: add and change document author document properties in Excel Would You Like To Complete Your Daily Work Quickly And Perfectly? When you insert the comments into a worksheet, the name of the comment author is automatically inserted into the comment followed by a colon. Values that don't match the property type are stored as text. You can assign a text, time, or numeric value to custom properties, and you can also assign them the values yes or no. You can specify your own text values for these properties to make it easier to organize and identify your documents.
Now the author names of existing comments are replaced with the specified one. Note: this method is only valid in Microsoft Excel 2010, but invalid in Excel 2007. My users just download the worksheet and co-author locally. Co-authoring allows you to collaborate in real time, where you can see everyone who is editing the workbook and the areas of the workbook they are working on. If not I guess we'l lhave to wait until we migrate our file server to Sharepoint Online and do it that way. Values that don't match the property type are stored as text. Under the Summary tab, you can view and edit current workbook properties, just as figure 2 shows.
In this article you'll also learn how to protect your document from any modifications and remove personal information from your Excel worksheet. The value that you type must match the selection in the Type list. In Excel 2011, I created and formatted one chart, which I then duplicated. We can use comments in Excel to remind ourselves and inform someone else about what the cell contains. See screenshot: If you want to have a free trial of this utility, please go to first, and then go to apply the operation according above steps. If you include the document properties for your files, you can easily organize and identify them later. What are comments and how we can identify the comments in Excel.
I found that exactly the same problem had been reported for Excel 2013 for Windows. Values that don't match the property type are stored as text. More often than not, the built-in feature is not enough. Kelemvor wrote: Well, based on the article I linked, they sure make it sound like it should work. Are you sharing the file first? It now shows me Office 365 proplus instead of 2016. For example, if you select Number in the Type list, you must type a number in the Value box. Step 2: Click the File tab to go to the backstage view.
For example, if you select Number in the Type list, you must type a number in the Value box. New Co-authoring Feature in Excel 2016 With a software update to certain versions of Excel in late summer 2017, Microsoft replaced the share workbook and track changes features with the new co-authoring feature. Please press Alt + F11 keys at the same time to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications. When you create a new document library, you can define one or more document library properties and set rules on their values. For changing author names in the whole workbook, please select All Sheets option. On the Summary tab in the Properties dialog box, you can add or edit the Title, Subject, Author, Manager, Company, Category, Keywords also called Tags , and Comments. To view custom properties, click the Custom tab.
That's what we've always gotten so we've started flagging things as Read Only Recommended just to prevent files from getting locked all the time. View the document properties when you open or save a file You can view the document properties for a file in the Open dialog box or Save As dialog box. For example, if you select Number in the Type list, you must type a number in the Value box. Step 2: In the Document Properties dialog box, you can add or change any kinds of document properties under Summary tab, including the Author. When you create a new document library, you can define one or more document library properties and set rules on their values. Do you remember your feelings when you just started to use Excel 2016 or 2013? You can then search for all sales files with that keyword.
Excel for Office 365 Word for Office 365 PowerPoint for Office 365 Publisher for Office 365 Access for Office 365 Excel 2019 Word 2019 PowerPoint 2019 Publisher 2019 Access 2019 Visio Professional 2019 Visio Standard 2019 Project Professional 2019 Office 2016 Excel 2016 Word 2016 PowerPoint 2016 Publisher 2016 Access 2016 Visio 2013 Visio Professional 2016 InfoPath 2013 Visio Standard 2016 Project Professional 2016 Excel 2013 Word 2013 PowerPoint 2013 Publisher 2013 Access 2013 Excel 2010 Word 2010 PowerPoint 2010 Access 2010 Publisher 2010 Visio 2010 Project 2010 InfoPath 2010 Excel 2007 Word 2007 PowerPoint 2007 Publisher 2007 Access 2007 Excel Starter 2010 Office 2007 Office 2010 Office 2013 Project Online Desktop Client Project Professional 2013 Project Standard 2010 Project Standard 2013 Project Standard 2016 Project Standard 2019 Visio Online Plan 2 Visio Standard 2010 Word Starter 2010 Document properties, also known as metadata, are details about a file that describe or identify it. I've attached a screenshot of my product information as well as the Save category from Options. This is the way you can change the author name in a cell comment. See screenshot: Form now on, when you inserting new comments into your worksheet, the author name will be the new one as you specified above. Step 2: Click the File tab to go to the backstage view.
To view custom properties, click the Custom tab. The time has come to tell you about different types of document properties, the ways of viewing and changing them in Excel 2016, 2013 and 2010. Any changes you made are saved automatically. The file has been shared with others all of which are using Office 2016. Note: This method won't work to the new comments you insert. If unchecked, the author name and initials will automatically be updated depending on who is currently signed into Office.