Word 2007 - How to change the Initials of Existing Comments

[Jeff Lowenstein]

I have a document modified by many people with close to 80 comments. Is
there a way to change all the initials of all the comments to something like
"Author" so I can give a clean copy to the client?

 

[Greg Maxey]

Jeff,

You can apply a common color and initials to comments with a macro like
this:

Sub ScratchMaco()
Dim oCom As Comment
For Each oCom In ThisDocument.Comments
oCom.Author = "Common"
oCom.Initial = "Author"
Next oCom
End Sub

For help installing and using the macro see:
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If it's Word 2003 or earlier (or saved from Word 2007 in Word 97-2003
format) you can use the "Remove personal information from file properties on
save" option, which converts all the markup to "Author."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org