Hi, Suzanne --
I missed this reply when I answered your comment to my suggestion -- sorry
about that! You probably do have a point that the clients don't care all
that much; maybe I'm being unnecessarily paranoid.
That said, I've still been searching for information, and just now I found a
web page
(
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html) with
this question and answer:
Q: I want to send my document outside the company. I want to leave tracked
changes in the document, but I don't want anyone to see who made the tracked
changes or when they were made. How do I do that?
Before Word 2003, you can't. The author (or reviewer) information and the
date information are permanently attached to the revision when the revision
was tracked. You can't change them, even in macro code.
In Word 2003, Tools Options Security. Tick the box "Remove personal
information from file properties on save." In spite of the name, this does
more than just remove information in the file properties. If this box is
ticked, Word removes the name of the author of a tracked change, and it
removes the date and time that the change was made when you save your
document. But it leaves the tracked change itself. All tracked changes and
comments will be now attributed to an anonymous "Author".
Do you know if that description is true of Word 2003 and beyond? If so, it
will influence my decision on future upgrades...
Thanks!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
I suspect you'll find most clients (a) are not really that aware of this
information and (b) don't care. My clients know I work nights, weekends, and
in my jammies, and they don't care how long it takes me in real time--only
how much time I bill them for (and most are not even too concerned about
that, since they trust me). If they knew how to do the work you're doing,
they wouldn't be hiring you to do it, and how you accomplish it is, as you
say, of no concern to them; it is for exactly this reason that I think you
will find they are not especially curious about it.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"redpencilgirl" wrote in message
...
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.)
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
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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.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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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...