Sending Comments without the Reviewer's Name

[Guest]

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.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

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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.

 

[Guest]

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 .

 

[Guest]

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...

 

[Comicmass]

What exactly do comments do and how do I use them?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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."