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You can change your author color at any time. Choose View Comments & Changes Author Color (from the View menu at the top of your screen), then choose a color. If you have a document open, all of your comments and changes in the document switch to the new color, and any new documents you create using the same author name use the new color. When I first wrote this answer (in 2015), the most recent version of Word for Mac computers was Microsoft Word for Mac 2011. In that version you can access these fields via File -> Properties. On the Summary tab: Quora prompted me to check and s.

How to remove timestamps from existing comments in Word document?

Normally, when inserting comment in Word document, a timestamp will be created automatically at the same time as below screenshot shown. Sometimes, you don’t want to display the timestamp of the comment, how can you remove it? This article will show you a method to deal with it.

Remove timestamps from existing comments in Word

Please do as follows to remove timestamps from existing comments in a Word document.

1. Open the folder contains the Word document which you will remove the timestamp from the existing comments.

2. Make sure the File name extensions box is checked, then, right click the file and select Rename option, change extension of the Word document from “.docx” to “.zip”, then press the Enter key. See screenshot:

3. In the opening Rename prompt box, click the Yes button.

4. Now the Word document is turned to a zip file as below screenshot shown, please unzip this file. In this case, I right click the zip file and select WinZip > Unzip to unzip the file.

5. Then the file has been unzipped in current folder. You need to find and open a folder which named “word”, and open the comment.xml file and the document.xml file separately with the Notepad application. Please right click it, and then choose Open with > Notepad. See screenshot:

6. In the opening comments.xml – Notepad window, you need to:

• 6.1) Press the Ctrl + F keys to open the Find dialog box;
• 6.2) Enter 'Your Name' w:date=' into the Find what box (here I enter “siluvia” w:date=”) and click the Find Next button.
• 6.3）Then the searched result will be highlighted in the window, please replace the 'Your Name' w:date=' with 'Your Name' w:ignore='.
• 6.4）Repeat the above two steps until all occurrences of 'Your Name' w:date=' are changed to 'Your Name' w:ignore='.
• 6.5) Save and close the file. See screenshot:

Change Author Name For Existing Comments Word 2011 Mac Version From Whole Screen

7. Repeat the step 6 to change all occurrences of 'Your Name' w:date='to 'Your Name' w:ignore=' in the document.xml –notepad window.

8. Rezip all files and folders you have unzipped out in step 4. Now a new zip file is created as below screenshot shown.

9. Convert the zip file to a Word document by changing the extension of the zip file to .docx. See screenshot.

Note: you can change the document name to the original one as you need.

Open the Word document, you can see all timestamps of existing comments are removed.

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  Changes all the dates to January 1, 1900 so looks really suspicious
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  It worked for me. I used Total Commander for renaming the files - and Notepad for search and replace. Thank you!
  
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  Didn't work for me...
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  Worked for me. Thanks!! Used WinZip. Didn't work with RAR.
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  It didn't work for me either
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  This did not work for me. I used WinRAR, don't know if this caused the problem. The Word file could not be opened afterwards.

How to change the author name for comment in Word

This article is talking about changing the default author name for comments, or changing the existing author name in a document to a new one. Please try the below two methods.

Change the comments’ author name for future use

If you want to change the comment’s author name for future use, please change the User Name in Word Options window.

1. In an opened Word document, click File > Options. In the Word Options window, make sure you are locating in the General tab, change the name in the User name box as below screenshot shown, and finally click the OK button.

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Now you have changed the default user name for comments in Word document.

Change the existing comment’s author name of a document

If you have received a document with lots of comments, and you want to change all comments’ author names to a certain one, the following VBA code will do you a favor.

1. Select the range contains comments or select the whole document you will change the author names by pressing the Ctrl + A keys, press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. In the opening Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module. Then copy below VBA code into the Module window.

VBA code: Change the existing comments’ author name of document

3. Press the F5 key to run the code. In the opening Comments Author Name dialog box, enter the new author name into the textbox and click the OK button.

4. In the next opening Comments initials dialog box, enter the initials as you need and click the OK button.

Then all comments’ author names in selected range are changed to the specified one immediately as below screenshot shown.

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  I am very grateful for this information. The VBA codes works Perfectly on a document I don't want the writer to know who the reviewer is yet.
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  Thank you! It changed perfectly the comments, BUT not formatting, like highlighting. Is there what can be modified in the VBA?

  
  
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  This appeared to work but I could not save the file without it reverting to the original Author.
  My workaround was to change the .docx extension on the filename to .zip. Then I opened the zip file. Browsed to the 'word' folder and then copied the 'comments.xml' file. Open the 'comments.xml' file in a text editor. Do a search and replace of the Author name then saved the file. Copy and replace the old 'comments.xml' with the new one in the .zip file. Now change the file extension back to .docx and the Author name is now replaced in the saved Word file.
  
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  Thanks for the tutorial. it really helped me
  
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  Many thanks for this. Works Perfect. A warning though; all comments will be changed, regardless of multiple authors. Something that didn't bother me.
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  Here is a modified Macro that will allow you to first specify the Name your want to replace in case there are other comments that you don't want to modify.
  Sub ChangeCommentAuthor()
  'Updated by EntendOffice 20181112
  Dim I As Long
  Dim xOldName As String
  Dim xNewName As String
  Dim xShortName As String
  If Selection.Comments.Count = 0 Then
  MsgBox 'No comments in your selection!', vbInformation, 'KuTools for Word'
  Exit Sub
  End If
  xOldName = InputBox('Old author name?', 'KuTools for Word')
  xNewName = InputBox('New author name?', 'KuTools for Word')
  xShortName = InputBox('New author initials?', 'KuTools for Word')
  If xOldName = ' Or xNewName = ' Or xShortName = ' Then
  MsgBox 'The author name/initials can’t be empty.', vbInformation, 'Kutools for Word'
  Exit Sub
  End If
  With Selection
  For I = 1 To .Comments.Count
  If .Comments(I).Author = xOldName Then
  .Comments(I).Author = xNewName
  .Comments(I).Initial = xShortName
  End If
  Next I
  End With
  End Sub

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    Thank you, Olivier, you are a good person!
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  The VBA script worked perfectly to change the name of the author to my company name. Thank you!
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