[mephisto]

Hello. I came across redpencilgirl's other post asking how to do this and followed the discussion to this one.

I totally agree with redpencilgirl on this. I left full-time publishing a couple of years ago to return to academia but still do the occasional freelance job. At the moment I'm marking lots and lots of undergraduate essays. The essays are all submitted electronically as .doc files, and marks and feedback are all to be uploaded to the same place. I'm very thorough (probably as a result of my editorial background) and don't want students and other markers to know exactly how long I'm spending marking some essays, when I'm making the comments, or that I sometimes revisit an essay after marking several others to add another comment somewhere. I just want them to see the comments.

Originally Posted by redpencilgirl

In Word 2002 for Windows XP (and apparently in other newer versions of Word
as well), rolling the mouse over a Track Changes balloon turns up the name of
the person who made the change or comment, along with the date and time the
change or comment was made. Currently I can choose the privacy option
"Remove personal information from file properties on save" and have my name
replaced with the anonymous term "author" -- however, I cannot opt to remove
the date and time. I believe that information about date and time is
personal, too, and I feel strongly that I should have the option to take it
out.

Here is the situation: I am a freelance editor, and my clients would like
me to make my changes using the Track Changes option instead of the
old-fashioned way (on paper with a red pencil). I don't mind helping them
out that way -- I'm all for going electronic whenever possible -- but I DO
mind that the electronic document will suddenly provide them with information
that was never available to them in the paper version: for example, that I
often work late into the night, or that I often change my mind about a
correction I have made and go back later to revise it. As long as I make my
deadlines, my clients do not need to know when I made my changes and comments
-- they only need to know that the changes and comments have been made.

Please help...thanks!

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