Track Changes

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Mike

Word XP. Two users on one machine. Word has a User of
Mike. Mary comes to a document that Mike was working on
and makes changes. Those changes come up as Mikes, because
Mary forgot to change the user information field.

Is there a way to go into the previous changes and "change
the changer". ie , make mike mary?

I hope i didn't confuse my point. I'm a little confused
myself. I'm almost positive that you can't, based on my
research, but figured I'd ask the "gods" before leaving it
alone.

Thanks.
 
Hi Mike

This is a bit of a hack, but it works

(First off, the Revison.Author property in VBA is read-only

(1) Open up the document, and accept all the change
(2) Save the document as some name (accepted.doc
(3). Close accepted.do
(4). Re-open the original file, and *reject* all the changes
(5). Go to Tools -> Track Changes -> Compare documents (that's for Word 2000 -- yours may be slightly different
(6). Select accepted.doc, and press "Open

That should change Mary's changes to Mike's changes. I'm not sure how that would work if there are changes other than Mary's in the document. This could all be automated, but it sounds like you just need a one-time fix here

HTH
Andrew Savika
 
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