Sending Comments without the Reviewer's Name

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When using track changes in Word 2002, how do I send a marked up manuscript
that retains the comments without showing the name of the reviewer? I would
like to protect the reviewer's anonymity but send the comments to the author.
 
No way to do this, unfortunately, unless the reviewer has added the comments
anonymously to begin with (by removing the User Name from Tools | Options |
User Information).

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Louann said:
When using track changes in Word 2002, how do I send a marked up manuscript
that retains the comments without showing the name of the reviewer? I would
like to protect the reviewer's anonymity but send the comments to the
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author.
 
Hi, Louann. You can delete the comment authors' names by running the
following macro:

Sub ZapCommentInitials()
Dim oCmt As Comment
For Each oCmt In ActiveDocument.Comments
oCmt.Initial = ""
oCmt.Author = ""
Next oCmt
End Sub

If you don't know how to install a macro, see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm .
 
Thank you for that, garfield-n-odie. That's something I'd been looking for,
for quite a while now.

Got another request. Would you consider writing another macro that one could
maybe use for signaling or sending a short message to the DeskTop of another
home Network computer on the LAN? Preferably one with bells & whistles that
flashes and dings on the target DeskTop and/or Taskbar when message arrives.

No harm in asking, is there?

With hope in my heart...
 
Word's Help file has a number of articles about comments. You can use a
comment (Insert | Comment in Word 2003 and earlier) to make a note on a
document in much the same way that you would add a handwritten note (or
Post-it) to a printed one. This can be a note to yourself or to someone else
who will read the document. It can be removed by right-clicking and choosing
Delete Comment. In Word 2002 and above, comments are by default displayed in
marginal "balloons."
 
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