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How do I prevent users seeing the dates of comments/changes?
For a marking system I am piloting markers comment on essays using the Word
Comment balloons. However I have discovered that while it is fairly straightforward to prevent marker identity from being discovered (by setting the User identity to something anonymous) the date/time information for each comment is available for the students, which is not something I really want them to get hold of (any excuse to contest a mark - i.e. what time the marking was done, how long it appeared to take). Is there a way to strip this information away, or lock it out of the hands of those who view it - while still keeping the comments themselves visible? |
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Hi ?B?TGF6eWpvdXJuYWxpc3Q=?=,
For a marking system I am piloting markers comment on essays using the Word Comment balloons. However I have discovered that while it is fairly straightforward to prevent marker identity from being discovered (by setting the User identity to something anonymous) the date/time information for each comment is available for the students, which is not something I really want them to get hold of (any excuse to contest a mark - i.e. what time the marking was done, how long it appeared to take). Is there a way to strip this information away, or lock it out of the hands of those who view it - while still keeping the comments themselves visible? No, there isn't; at least, not in the user-interface or while the document is in Word document format. The date is a "read-only" attribute, which means even VBA can't write to it. If the document were saved as HTML or XML - files in plain text format - the date information could certainly be removed (or set to a meaningless value). And removing it could be automated using script or VB(A). But that's about all that would be possible. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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