I've just started using Word 2013, and I need to do excessive editing of a manuscript. Several editors have all made changes, and so have I. Normally (in Word 2007) Word knows me and lets me edit my own changes as much as I like, but in Word 2013, every time I open the document, it seems to think I'm a new reviewer, so my name is listed under Reviewers 5 or 6 times.

This means when I try to change an earlier addition, Word thinks I'm changing someone else's, and show it as a markup, instead of just letting me delete it.

Makes it complex and time-consuming and frustrating, because I have to keep dancing around the changes to make them look right.

So, how can I
a: tell Word I'm me every time I open the document. and
b: combine all my existing changes into a single Reviewer again.

I do have a deadline for these edits. Thanks anyone who can figure this one out.