Retain Author Information

[rebecca]

One of our departments has an issue when they receive a Word 2003 file with
Track Changes from their client and the client has the option selected:
"Tools/Options/Security/Remove Personal Information......".
__Is there VB code to accomplish this?
--Is there a way to automatically detect that this setting is selected prior
to opening the file?
__Is there a way to automatically deselect/detect this option prior to
opening the file?
__is there a way that Windows can search this option prior to opening the
file?
Any help is appreciated.

 

[Pesach Shelnitz]

Hi Rebecca,

When the "Remove Personal Information" option is activated, all user
information is removed from revisions and comments whenever the document is
saved. Thus, the user information is gone from the file before the client
passes the file on to your department. Even if you could detect the setting
before you open the file, you wouldn't be able to recover the personal
information that the client removed.

On the other hand, if you want to de-activate this option so that the
personal information of people who add comments and make revisions in your
company would be retained, you could use the following line of code to do
this.

ActiveDocument.RemovePersonalInformation = False

Would it help you to run this line of code when a specific file or all files
are opened in your company?