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Remove name in Comment

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I have a document that has comments made by someone other than me inserted. I want to keep the comments but remove the person's name. How do I do this?Wednesday, October 12, 2016 7:16 PM
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Hi,
Based on your description, you can go to File- Info- Inspect Document:
Then Check Document Properties and Personal Information and click Inspect:
Please select Remove All and Reinspect
After save and reopen the document you will get the result as shown in the following figure:
Please try this method and check the result.
Regards,
Emi Zhang
TechNet Community SupportPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff@microsoft.com.- Proposed as answer by Emi ZhangMicrosoft contingent staff Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:10 AM
- Marked as answer by Emi ZhangMicrosoft contingent staff Sunday, October 30, 2016 6:45 AM
Thursday, October 13, 2016 9:44 AM -
You can change the author name in the comments by running the following macro:
Sub ChangeUserNameInComments() 'Macro created by Stefan Blom, MVP, October 2016 Dim c As Comment For Each c In ActiveDocument.Comments c.Author = "Your name here" c.Initial = "NN" Next c End Sub
For assistance with the macro, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.
Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP
- Proposed as answer by Emi ZhangMicrosoft contingent staff Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:10 AM
- Marked as answer by Emi ZhangMicrosoft contingent staff Sunday, October 30, 2016 6:45 AM
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 7:55 PM
All replies
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Hi,
Based on your description, you can go to File- Info- Inspect Document:
Then Check Document Properties and Personal Information and click Inspect:
Please select Remove All and Reinspect
After save and reopen the document you will get the result as shown in the following figure:
Please try this method and check the result.
Regards,
Emi Zhang
TechNet Community SupportPlease remember to mark the replies as answers if they help and unmark them if they provide no help.
If you have feedback for TechNet Subscriber Support, contact tnmff@microsoft.com.- Proposed as answer by Emi ZhangMicrosoft contingent staff Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:10 AM
- Marked as answer by Emi ZhangMicrosoft contingent staff Sunday, October 30, 2016 6:45 AM
Thursday, October 13, 2016 9:44 AM -
You can change the author name in the comments by running the following macro:
Sub ChangeUserNameInComments() 'Macro created by Stefan Blom, MVP, October 2016 Dim c As Comment For Each c In ActiveDocument.Comments c.Author = "Your name here" c.Initial = "NN" Next c End Sub
For assistance with the macro, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.
Stefan Blom, Microsoft Word MVP
- Proposed as answer by Emi ZhangMicrosoft contingent staff Wednesday, October 26, 2016 6:10 AM
- Marked as answer by Emi ZhangMicrosoft contingent staff Sunday, October 30, 2016 6:45 AM
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 7:55 PM