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Timotheus Timotheus is offline How to remove reviewer's name from comments and track changes? Mac OS X How to remove reviewer's name from comments and track changes? Office 2016 for Mac
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Word (I'm using Word 2016 for Mac) by default adds a reviewer's name to each and every comment to a text and and each and every text change in Track Changes. Is there a way to turn this off? When there's only one reviewer, and when the author of the text knows perfectly the reviewer's identity, there is absolutely no need for him / her to see a hundred times the reviewer's name. Any help much appreciated!
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I have this same problem, and it is serious!!! "improvements" to track changes seem to be geared to groups edits, but they are a disaster for single editors with single clients. I am making a lot of small changes on a ms., and my name litters up the margins to no advantage whatsoever. I could do without the date and time as well!!!! Please Microsoft find a solution to this problem
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Try this
4 Ways to Delete or Change the Author Names for Comments in Your Word Document - Data Recovery Blog
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I have this same problem, and it is serious!!! "improvements" to track changes seem to be geared to groups edits, but they are a disaster for single editors with single clients. I am making a lot of small changes on a ms., and my name litters up the margins to no advantage whatsoever. I could do without the date and time as well!!!! Please Microsoft find a solution to this problem
You can't control which information is displayed by Word. What you can do is remove personal information which means that the user name will be replaced with the generic "Author" instead. I don't know the steps for this in Word for Mac, but they are different compared to Windows versions of Word.
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