Open a secondary copy of the original document saved under a different file name. Therefore, you should complete this process on a secondary copy of your document rather than on the original. It also permanently removes authorship and “Last Modified By” data. How to Remove User Names from Existing Track Changes Caution: This process is not reversible and applies to all users associated with the document, even those who haven’t used Track Changes. The images below are from Word 2016 however, the steps are the same for Word 2019 and similar for Word 2013. I'm running a copy of microsoft office on the iMac I just bought and I've noticed it still carries the old owners name when saving files. I have come to depend on that timestamp for my work. It appears that Track Changes in Word 2016 no longer displays in the margin balloons the time when an edit was made, only the date. This tutorial is also available as a YouTube video, which you can watch on my or in the video player at the bottom of this page. This solution obviously isn’t ideal for those of us who would like to change our user name for existing comments and edits to something other than Author, but it is useful when anonymity is important. As an alternative, today’s tutorial demonstrates how to replace user names connected to all Track Changes (existing and future) with the default label Author. However, Word doesn’t have a straightforward way to change user names connected to existing comments and edits, so that tutorial only works for new comments and edits. My previous tutorial “” shows how to change user names for comments and edits created with.
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