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I am trying to figure out how to remove a word ('by') that seems to appear on the compiled .tex file but which cannot be located anywhere in the document class. Any help is much appreciated.

I am using the MastersDoctoralthesis template as reference to edit my report.enter image description here

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  • Just a guess (hence not an official answer), but have you provided an author? Add a line \author{your name here} to the preamble and see if that is added to the document. Dec 2, 2015 at 3:36
  • Yes now that I add the command in the preamble it is reflected in the abstract. How do I get rid of 'by' ?
    – Sowmya
    Dec 2, 2015 at 3:38
  • I got the problem fixed. Instead of using \begin{abstract} to define the abstract I used simple commands to include the title 'abstract' with unique formatting.
    – Sowmya
    Dec 2, 2015 at 3:54
  • Even though that specific template is fairly well known, you can't really assume that people know about all the different templates floating around, so please add a link at the very least, if a complete code example becomes too complicated. Dec 2, 2015 at 7:32
  • Why do you assume this is an error? This is by design, this is how the template defines the abstract to look like.
    – Johannes_B
    Dec 11, 2015 at 16:25

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This is a crosspost to LaTeX-community. Quoting my answer from there:

\renewcaptionname{english}{\byname}{}

If you don't want the predefined abstract-environment, why are you using it?

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