Wrong document title shows when I open a file

I am experiencing the same issue.  I made a copy of my PDF and renamed the copy, yet when I open it, it displays the old filename in the tab.  Additionally, the properties show the title as the old name and are versioning it.  This makes no sense. Recurring bug?  How do I fix this?

I know this is an old thread, but I had the same problem and finally found that there is indeed a settings you can check to show file name instead of title. In Adobe Acrobat Pro, go to Menu->Preferences->Documents and check the box for "Always use file name as document title". This worked perfectly.

The "correct answer" did not help me with this situation.

Solution: Preferences > Documents > Check "Always use filename as document title"

I know yours is an old post, but I was still having the same problems, until today.

The Microsoft Word document I wanted to send as a pdf was one I had started writing about 20 years ago but had since renamed.

On my computer – not in OneDrive – I opened the Word document.
I then created a new Word document.
Before saving it, I copied all the text from the original file and pasted it into the new document.
Then I renamed the new document with today's date and the title I wanted. (Rather than copying and pasting, I made sure I typed the title in from scratch.)
Then I saved the new document.

Instead of the ancient, original file name, the pdf copy I made from the new document has today's date plus the title I want.

I believe the problem is with Adobe Acrobat and not with the other apps. I am using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC on Windows 10 and I am experiencing the same problem when I try to rename a PDF document (which I have not created). The new title shows attached to the icon and shows correctly if I choose Properties/General or Properties/Details, but the old title (the title of the original PDF) shows at the top of the window if I open the new document in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. The only way to eliminate the problem is by using Print to PDF, but it should not be needed, obviously.

I've been having the same issue and finally figured out how to solve it right in Adobe, rather than the source program (word, excel, etc.). In Adobe Acrobat Reader DC go to Edit > Preferences > Documents and check the box that says "Alwasy use filename as document title". Worked for me! 🙂

Hey everyone!!

I know no one has posted here recently but I am a college student and have been going through the same issue. I was getting SO annoyed that I had to go into each individual document to look at the content to know what it was instead of skimming the title.

I have also been opening my documents into Word first, then exporting as a PDF, but there is a way to easily fix this for all your PDF's! I have a Mac so it may be a little different but this should still work

Open Adobe - without opening a document so it brings you to the home page

Click on "Adobe Acrobat" - (for mac) this is where it is possibly different for other computers

Click on "Preferences" - if you open a document and try to do this, you will be brought to the preferences specifically for that document and not Adobe as a whole

On the left side, click "Documents"

Check the box that says "Always use filename as document title"

This worked for me so I hope this can help!!! I attached some photos

Cheers

Pardon me but this to me is NOT a solution. I want to see the FILE NAME not the Title. I'm a seasoned IT guy and this does not really help. I could get 10 documents with same title but different file names. I cannot tell from the Tab which one is which. People update the document but do not change the Title. I do not have the document to change the title, but I can change the file name. You should give people a choice not force what you think is best because it's not the best for everyone, it's not even a good solution if you don't want that. I get documents from some people by email. They are PDF files but they all say Powerpoint Presentation on the Tab, how the heck am I supposed to know the difference? Again I have no access to the source file. It does not help 1 bit that it says Powerpoint Presentation. I have Zero way to tell which version of the file is open on which Tab when they all look the same. The PDF has links but those are hidden so it's also impossible to tell by the content. Seems like it would be easy to show the file name. But thank you for listening. I hope they can update this to provide choices, Thanks! 

I had this same problem and couldn't figure it out until I understood that Acrobat is pulling metadata from the source file (which is at least 15 years old!). Word has my maiden name in the souce document "document title" properties and so even though the file name has been changed over the years, it began to show my old name since I've been saving over the same document for that long. The problem was solved once I copied my document contents, opened up a brand new document file and pasted the contents into that file. In this new file, there is nothing listed as the document title, so Acrobat shows the file name in the title bar above the page. If I save this new document down as different file names now, any pdfs created work correctly.