Just did it -- thanks!

Please vote... :-)

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

When you make a new post on the Communities web page, one of the selections
in the left-hand dropdown is "Suggestion for Microsoft". Use that, and
phrase your request as a suggestion, explaining why you need it and how you
think it should work. If other readers think it's a good idea, they can vote
for it. Microsoft has committed to considering all suggestions, and giving
more weight to ones with more votes.

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redpencilgirl wrote:
I guess I am in the minority -- but perhaps an increasingly large
minority if more and more companies decide to move from hard-copy
edits to electronic edits! See, I'm a freelancer, and the only thing
my clients need to know is that I caught all the mistakes and got the
work in by the deadline. The rest of it is none of their business.
And while I do know I can change the time on my clock, keeping track
of when I want to pretend each change happened is just a little too
time-consuming even for me.

The result of this news, of course, is that I will put off my clients
from switching to electronic edits for as long as possible.

Do you know who I would contact to beg for this feature to be
optional in future versions of Word?

Thanks for your help...

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

No, it isn't possible to have comments or tracked changes without
timestamps in any version of Word. I'm afraid you're very much in
the minority on this issue -- most people _do_ want to know exactly
when changes were made, or don't care one way or the other.

You can't really disable the clock -- Windows won't run without it
-- but you can change the time it shows, and the timestamps in Word
will obey it. Just double-click the time display in the system tray
at the bottom right of your screen, and set whatever time and/or
date you want. Note that this will also affect the creation
date/time and modification date/time shown for any files you save
while the clock is changed. (But if you're on a network, your clock
may be resynchronized to the server periodically.)

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redpencilgirl wrote:
Wow -- THAT is depressing. Do you know if it's possible in any
other versions of Word...or if it's being considered as an option
for the future? Also, can you think of any workarounds that might
help (disabling my clock, for example)?

Thanks!

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No, it is not possible to remove this information.

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"redpencilgirl" wrote in
message ...
Is there any way to remove the date/time stamp that comes up when
I roll the mouse over a comment or balloon? (I'm using Word 2002
in Windows XP.) I don't mind if people know I was the one who
made the comment; I just don't want them to know that I made it
at 2:00 in the morning (or that I didn't notice the mistake the
first ten times I read the document but only figured it out on
the eleventh go-through).

This is a very big deal for me -- I feel like personal information
is being included in a document that doesn't belong there. When I
go into options to remove personal information, however, all that
gets taken out is my
name --
NOT the date/time stamp. Please help!

Thanks in advance...