Jeff,
You can apply a common color and initials to comments with a macro like
this:
Sub ScratchMaco()
Dim oCom As Comment
For Each oCom In ThisDocument.Comments
oCom.Author = "Common"
oCom.Initial = "Author"
Next oCom
End Sub
For help installing and using the macro see:
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
"Jeff Lowenstein" wrote in
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I have a document modified by many people with close to 80 comments. Is
there a way to change all the initials of all the comments to something
like
"Author" so I can give a clean copy to the client?