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Track Changes: date/time stamp
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... |
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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 Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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... |
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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 Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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... |
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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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. 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 Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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... |
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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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. 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 Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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... |
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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. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. 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.) -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. 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 Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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... |
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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 Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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 Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. 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 Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "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... |
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