Track Changes should confirm user information first.

[Guest]

Many people still use Office on shared computers or enter dummy user
information. I believe that Word should first confirm the user information
(name, initials) before letting the user modify the document using Track
Changes.

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[garfield-n-odie]

What criteria do you propose that Word use to determine whether
the user name and initials are "real" or "fake"?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I suspect that 386-DX just meant that Word should say, "These
changes/comments will be labeled "John Q. Doe" [or JQD]. Is that correct?"

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[Daiya Mitchell]

I'm too lazy to vote,* but actually I agree. It would make a lot of sense
if you turned on Track Changes and got a dialog:

The current reviewer is:
Use this reviewer name instead:
[checkbox] stop showing this dialog

(with corresponding "prompt for reviewer name" in the Tools | Options, Track
Changes panel.)

Then you could easily choose initials or a full name, depending.

This would also be a simple way of enabling anonymous comments, which there
are a number of requests for.

*I even tried to vote, but it said "service temporarily unavailable."
probably a fake Mac error message, though.

I suspect that 386-DX just meant that Word should say, "These
changes/comments will be labeled "John Q. Doe" [or JQD]. Is that correct?"

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Great idea!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I'm too lazy to vote,* but actually I agree. It would make a lot of sense
if you turned on Track Changes and got a dialog:

The current reviewer is:
Use this reviewer name instead:
[checkbox] stop showing this dialog

(with corresponding "prompt for reviewer name" in the Tools | Options, Track
Changes panel.)

Then you could easily choose initials or a full name, depending.

This would also be a simple way of enabling anonymous comments, which there
are a number of requests for.

*I even tried to vote, but it said "service temporarily unavailable."
probably a fake Mac error message, though.

I suspect that 386-DX just meant that Word should say, "These
changes/comments will be labeled "John Q. Doe" [or JQD]. Is that

correct?"

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Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
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