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1. CHANGE AUTHOR NAME FOR TRACK CHANGES IN WORD 2011 MAC HOW TO
2. CHANGE AUTHOR NAME FOR TRACK CHANGES IN WORD 2011 MAC CODE

Thanks wordguru, that's exactly what I needed! I found that if you're saving the Word document as docx, you can edit the XML directly and remove the timestamps this way.

This is positively Byzantine, but I'm glad the option exists! Voila! No more date or time stamp in Track Changes comments and edits in this document. Go to "Word > Preferences > Personal Settings > Security > Privacy Options" and check "Remove personal information from this file on save" then save the document.

CHANGE AUTHOR NAME FOR TRACK CHANGES IN WORD 2011 MAC HOW TO

This won't do if you're using custom document properties, because those would be removed at the same time.Īfter many hours of poking around, I discovered that you CAN suppress the date & time stamp from Track Changes-here's how to do it (in Word for Mac 2011, at any rate): The dates and times will be removed from all tracked changes, and the reviewer name will be changed to "Author". After inspecting the document, when the results panel shows up, click the button to remove all "Document Properties and Personal Information". On the Office button menu, go to Prepare > Inspect Document. Then all comments’ author names in selected range are changed to the specified one immediately as below screenshot shown.I found this same question posed on a PC-based Word forum, and a respondent offered the following instructions for addressing this issue in Word 2007 (PC) In the next opening Comments initials dialog box, enter the initials as you need and click the OK button. In the opening Comments Author Name dialog box, enter the new author name into the textbox and click the OK button.Ĥ. MsgBox "The author name/initials can’t be empty.", vbInformation, "Kutools for Word"ģ. XShortName = InputBox("New author initials?", "KuTools for Word") XNewName = InputBox("New author name?", "KuTools for Word") MsgBox "No comments in your selection!", vbInformation, "KuTools for Word" VBA code: Change the existing comments’ author name of document Sub ChangeCommentAuthor()

CHANGE AUTHOR NAME FOR TRACK CHANGES IN WORD 2011 MAC CODE

Then copy below VBA code into the Module window. In the opening Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module. Select the range contains comments or select the whole document you will change the author names by pressing the Ctrl + A keys, press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.Ģ. If you have received a document with lots of comments, and you want to change all comments’ author names to a certain one, the following VBA code will do you a favor.ġ. Now you have changed the default user name for comments in Word document. In the Word Options window, make sure you are locating in the General tab, change the name in the User name box as below screenshot shown, and finally click the OK button.

In an opened Word document, click File > Options. If you want to change the comment’s author name for future use, please change the User Name in Word Options window.ġ. Please try the below two methods.Ĭhange the comments’ author name for future useĬhange the existing comment’s author name of a document

This article is talking about changing the default author name for comments, or changing the existing author name in a document to a new one. How to change the author name for comment in Word