XLSX

Remove Excel metadata

Up to 100 files at once. Mixed formats are fine.

Removing metadata from an Excel workbook clears the author, the company, whoever last saved it and the editing history, while every formula, value and chart stays exactly as it is. Drop an .xlsx above and it is rewritten inside your browser.

A spreadsheet travels further than most documents

Workbooks get forwarded. A price list goes to a customer who sends it to a colleague who sends it to a competitor, and the properties travel the whole way — naming the person who built it and the company they built it at, long after anybody remembers where the file came from.

The fields are the same as any Office document: author, last saved by, company, manager, template, creation and modification dates, and the cumulative editing time. Custom properties are cleared too, and in corporate templates those often carry a client name, a matter number or a classification label.

What stays, and what to check yourself

Everything that makes it a spreadsheet: values, formulas, formatting, charts, pivot tables, named ranges and defined links. This rewrites the file's description of itself, not its contents.

Which means the things worth checking are in the content. Hidden sheets and hidden columns are still there and still readable. Cell comments name their authors. A pivot table keeps a cached copy of its whole source range, so a pivot built from data you later deleted can still contain that data. None of those are metadata, and none of them are removed here.

How to remove metadata from a Excel workbook

  1. Drop your Excel workbook onto this page, or click to choose one.
  2. Look at what was found before anything is removed.
  3. Remove it and download. The content of the file is untouched.

Removing Excel workbook metadata: common questions

Do formulas and charts survive?
Yes, entirely. Only the two small property files inside the workbook are replaced; every other part of the archive is copied across unchanged, so calculation, formatting and charts behave exactly as before.
Does this remove hidden sheets or cell comments?
No. Those are content rather than properties. Hidden sheets are still in the file and can be unhidden by anyone who receives it, and comments carry the name of whoever wrote them — worth a look before sending a workbook anywhere sensitive.
What about .xls?
The old binary format needs a different reader and is not supported here yet. Save as .xlsx first, then clean it.
Is the file uploaded?
No. The file is rewritten inside your browser and never leaves your device — which is the only arrangement that makes sense for a tool whose job is to remove information you would rather not share.
How do I know it worked?
The page lists what it found before the removal and inspects the result afterwards, so you watch the list go empty. You can also check independently: the properties dialog of whatever application opens the file will show the same thing.

Or turn this XLSX into something else: