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Hi Erin, Were I to wipe all these details using this method and pass the file after locking it to someone else, will their changes also reflect as ‘Author’? (Thank you, readers!) Please let me know in the comment section below if you have a Microsoft Word, Adobe Acrobat, or writing topic that you would like me to address in a future post. This tutorial was requested by several of my blog readers. Verify that all user names have been changed to Author in the Track Changes balloons. Select the Close button to close the Document Inspector dialog box. Select the Remove All button next to Document Properties and Personal Information. (This dialog box may not appear if you recently saved your changes.) 6.ĭeselect all the options in the Document Inspector dialog box except Document Properties and Personal Information. Save your document by selecting Yes in the question dialog box. Select Inspect Document in the drop-down menu. Select the Check for Issues button in the Backstage view. (Please see the Caution statement above.) 2. Open a secondary copy of the original document saved under a different file name. Therefore, you should complete this process on a secondary copy of your document rather than on the original. It also permanently removes authorship and “Last Modified By” data. How to Remove User Names from Existing Track Changes Caution: This process is not reversible and applies to all users associated with the document, even those who haven’t used Track Changes. The images below are from Word 2016 however, the steps are the same for Word 2019 and similar for Word 2013. This tutorial is also available as a YouTube video, which you can watch on my or in the video player at the bottom of this page. This solution obviously isn’t ideal for those of us who would like to change our user name for existing comments and edits to something other than Author, but it is useful when anonymity is important. As an alternative, today’s tutorial demonstrates how to replace user names connected to all Track Changes (existing and future) with the default label Author. However, Word doesn’t have a straightforward way to change user names connected to existing comments and edits, so that tutorial only works for new comments and edits. My previous tutorial “” shows how to change user names for comments and edits created with. Tick the box “Remove personal information from file properties on save.” Tick the box “Remove personal information from file properties on save.” In spite of the name, this does more than just remove information in the file properties. In Word 2003, Tools > Options > Security.
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