Document properties and reviewer names are different

A Word document can identify its creator through document properties and through names attached to comments or tracked revisions. Clearing the first does not necessarily clear the second.

Free AI Wiper supports DOCX, not legacy DOC files. Ordinary personal-metadata cleanup removes supported author, application and custom properties. It does not remove a name typed into the document or make the visible content anonymous.

Choose what to remove

  1. Keep the original and open a DOCX of up to 25 MiB in the cleaner above.
  2. Inspect the findings. Enable Remove personal metadata for supported document properties.
  3. If needed, separately enable Anonymize DOCX reviewers. This replaces supported classic comment and revision identities with Author while retaining review text and tracked edits.
  4. Clean, inspect the removed/kept report, then download and open the copy in Word.

Reviewer anonymization is optional and off by default. Modern comments and unsupported or ambiguous review structures are refused for that operation. It is not a command to accept revisions, delete every comment or redact people mentioned in the text.

Verify the copy you will share

Check document properties and the review pane, then read the visible document. Some metadata cleanup affects whole records and can remove several properties together. Unsupported records can remain; the output report only covers supported selected findings.

Read the Office format boundaries, PDF author guide and batch workflow.