How do you take your name/date out of the Discussion Comment box?

[Guest]

In the PPT, there is an option Insert Comment, which a pop-up window appears.
You can type your own notes/comments here, very much like an Edit comments
in Excel, which you can delete your name/date. But in PPT, this is
impossible! It must be defaulted somewhere. Does anyone know? Xs

 

[Bill Foley]

Not sure that you can take the date out, but the only way I have figured how
to remove the name is to change your PowerPoint profile name to a "space"
character. Open PowerPoint, click "Tools", "Options", click the "general"
TAB and the name listed there is what shows up when you insert a comment.
Unfortunately if you delete your name and try to insert a comment it asks
for your name. If you replace the text with a space it appears as though it
is empty when you insert a comment. The date, however, is probably not
possible to change since it probably uses the setting of your computer.
There might be some sort of Registry setting you can fool with, but I
wouldn't know what it is.

Hope that helps!

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[Michael Koerner]

Bill I do believe it is also linked to whatever you inserted into
MSWord,Tools, User Information.

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| Not sure that you can take the date out, but the only way I have figured
how
| to remove the name is to change your PowerPoint profile name to a "space"
| character. Open PowerPoint, click "Tools", "Options", click the "general"
| TAB and the name listed there is what shows up when you insert a comment.
| Unfortunately if you delete your name and try to insert a comment it asks
| for your name. If you replace the text with a space it appears as though
it
| is empty when you insert a comment. The date, however, is probably not
| possible to change since it probably uses the setting of your computer.
| There might be some sort of Registry setting you can fool with, but I
| wouldn't know what it is.
|
| Hope that helps!
|
| --
| Bill Foley, Microsoft MVP (PowerPoint)
| Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
| www.pttinc.com
| Check out PPT FAQs at: http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/
| "Success, something you measure when you are through succeeding."
|
| | > In the PPT, there is an option Insert Comment, which a pop-up window
| > appears.
| > You can type your own notes/comments here, very much like an Edit
comments
| > in Excel, which you can delete your name/date. But in PPT, this is
| > impossible! It must be defaulted somewhere. Does anyone know? Xs
|
|

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Not sure that you can take the date out, but the only way I have figured how
to remove the name is to change your PowerPoint profile name to a "space"
character. Open PowerPoint, click "Tools", "Options", click the "general"
TAB and the name listed there is what shows up when you insert a comment.
Unfortunately if you delete your name and try to insert a comment it asks
for your name. If you replace the text with a space it appears as though it
is empty when you insert a comment. The date, however, is probably not
possible to change since it probably uses the setting of your computer.
There might be some sort of Registry setting you can fool with, but I
wouldn't know what it is.

The comment date is a read-only value, but there's probably a way of faking it.
I'll hum a few bars ...

Using VBA, you'd locate each comment on a slide and add a new comment, using
the original's properties or new ones, depending on what you wanted. .Text
would stay the same but .Author would change, in this case.

I'm guessing that if you did:

Date = #7/4/2006#

before creating the modified copy of the original comment, your new comment
would have an independence day date stamp.