I created a document in MS Word 2002 without Track Changes, then took
cuts from an older document and pasted them into my document. Now when
I look at Reviewers in my document it contains the name of the person
who edited the older document (who is not a member of our company). Is
there a way to remove that reviewer's name?

Hi Katiegirl,

I created a document in MS Word 2002 without Track Changes, then took
cuts from an older document and pasted them into my document. Now when
I look at Reviewers in my document it contains the name of the person
who edited the older document (who is not a member of our company). Is
there a way to remove that reviewer's name?

Word 2003 contains an option that will let you remove all "personal"
information from a document. I think, for Word 2002, you had to download
a tool from Microsoft to do this, but I can't remember for sure.

The only other possibility would be to save it as HTML, open it as "plain
text", then do a search on the name. You should then be able to delete
it, open the document and save it again as a normal Word document. (Keep
the original, of course, in case something goes wrong.)

Hmmm. You could also try copying everything but the last paragraph mark
into a new document. That might leave the Reviewer information out, if
Track Changes is OFF and no changes are recorded in the document.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Cindy --

Thanks for your response. I have tried the options you mention, plus
several others found in other locations on the internet.
Unfortunately, none have worked. Have you yourself tried to remove
"Reviewers" in WORD 2003? We may consider upgrading if we knew it
would work in that version.

Thanks,

Katiegirl

Cindy -- I forgot to mention that we have the "Remove Hidden Data"
program installed, and that doesn't remove the Reviewers, either.

Katiegirl

Hi Katiegirl,

Have you yourself tried to remove
"Reviewers" in WORD 2003? We may consider upgrading if we knew it
would work in that version.

Yes, if I activate the "Remove personal information" option in
Tools/Options/Security, all the names are removed and replaced with
the term "Author".

Also, I can save a Word document as XML and process the XML (with
Notepad, if necessary) to remove any names.

You might find someone with word 2003 and see if what it does is
acceptable, before investing in upgrading one or more machines...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Cindy -- Thanks so much for your help. With some figuring, and also
activating "Remove personal information," then saving the doc and
closing out of WORD, opening WORD and the doc again, I also managed to
remove the reviewers (except "Author" which is fine). I really
appreciate your taking the time to respond on this one.

Katiegirl

Hi Katiegirl,

Thanks so much for your help. With some figuring, and also
activating "Remove personal information," then saving the doc and
closing out of WORD, opening WORD and the doc again, I also managed to
remove the reviewers (except "Author" which is fine). I really
appreciate your taking the time to respond on this one.

You're welcome. Glad you're "up and running" :-)

Cindy Meister