Hiding the Author of a Revision

[ARF!]

At my job I've been asked to do something that I cannot seem to find
any help with in the usual places.

One of my marketing people is circulating a document to other people
asking for their input/revisions. The document already has many
revisions that he wants those people to see, but for some reason he
does not want the people he's sending the document out to now to be
able to see who made the existing revisions.

Looking through the object browsers, I see that each revision object
has an author property, but this property is marked as read only and I
cannot alter or delete the author.

Does anyone here know of a way to obscure this information while
leaving the rest of the revision in tact?

Thanks,

 

[ARF!]

Replying to my own post. I did some searching and found a "backdoor"
posted here in 2004. The author [Andrew Savikas] suggested saving the
document as an RTF and in a text editor find text that looks like:


{\*\revtbl {Unknown;}{Homer Simpson;}{Bart Simpson;}{Lisa Simpson;}}

and change the names as needed.

It's a one time deal, so I don't need anything fancier than this to go
on with my life.

Thanks,

ARF!

 

[Jay Freedman]

For future reference, if you're using Word 2003: go to
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html#Security
and scroll down to the fifth question/answer under the "Security issues"
heading.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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all may benefit.

Replying to my own post. I did some searching and found a "backdoor"
posted here in 2004. The author [Andrew Savikas] suggested saving the
document as an RTF and in a text editor find text that looks like:


{\*\revtbl {Unknown;}{Homer Simpson;}{Bart Simpson;}{Lisa Simpson;}}

and change the names as needed.

It's a one time deal, so I don't need anything fancier than this to go
on with my life.

Thanks,

ARF!

At my job I've been asked to do something that I cannot seem to find
any help with in the usual places.

One of my marketing people is circulating a document to other people
asking for their input/revisions. The document already has many
revisions that he wants those people to see, but for some reason he
does not want the people he's sending the document out to now to be
able to see who made the existing revisions.

Looking through the object browsers, I see that each revision object
has an author property, but this property is marked as read only and
I cannot alter or delete the author.

Does anyone here know of a way to obscure this information while
leaving the rest of the revision in tact?

Thanks,

 

[ARF!]

Wow! That's even better [less prone to errors]. Thank you.

ARF!