'fraid not. Your client has already locked the box by enabling that
feature.
Best solution would be to ask them to turn it off for you.
--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
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"rebecca" wrote in message
:
I am aware of your suggestion; i was hoping you had an 'outside of the box'
suggestion?
"rebecca" wrote:
Yes to your first question. having the 'remove personal information...' is
an excellent feature except when companies are knowing passing contracts back
and forth and want to capture the author info for track changes purposes.
I'm assuming that if the client sends their file via email and if the 'remove
personal info' is selected that there is not a way to capture it somewhere in
the file? Could custom properties resolve the issue of lost author info?
could some type of VB code gather the author info before the file is opened?
BTW: reply and submit continue to crash, so sorry if you're getting
multiple duplicate responses.....
"Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote:
So you're saying that the client has taken steps to remove metadata from
the file and you want to figure out a way to restore that metadata TO
the file before you open it?
I suspect you'd have to get the client to agree to turn that option off
- but I also suspect they've turned it on for a reason.
Or are you having a problem remembering to turn that option back on so
that your own authors get their metadata recorded in the file?
--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q
"rebecca" wrote in message
:
One of our departments has an issue when they send/receive a Word 2003 file
with track changes from their client and their client has the option
selected: "Tools/options/security/remove personal information....." .
--Is there a way to automatically detect that this option is not on prior to
opening the file?
--Is there a way to activate this feature prior to opening the file to
retain the author information?
--Is there VB code to accomplish this?
--Is there a Windows search feature to accomplish this?
Any help would be valuable. Thank you