How to remove timestamps from existing comments in Word document?

1. How To Remove Personal Data From Comments Word For Mac Os
2. How To Remove Personal Data From Comments Word For Macs

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1. Find and remove hidden data and personal information with the Document Inspector You can use the Document Inspector to find and remove hidden data and personal information in Word documents. It is a good idea to use the Document Inspector before you share an electronic copy of your Word document, such as in an e-mail attachment.
2. However, Word doesn’t have a straightforward way to change user names connected to existing comments and edits, so that tutorial only works for new comments and edits. As an alternative, today’s tutorial demonstrates how to remove user names connected to all Track Changes (existing and future) and replace them with the default label Author.

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.

How To Remove Personal Data From Comments Word For Mac Os

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:

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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How To Remove Personal Data From Comments Word For Macs

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  Changes all the dates to January 1, 1900 so looks really suspicious
• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  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
• To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.
  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.

Overview

You may not be aware that your Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files often contain hidden or personal information, such as revisions or comments, that others can access. Depending on the nature of the information, this could place you in an embarrassing or compromising position. It could even potentially put the university at legal risk.

For example, during the discovery phase in a lawsuit, electronic copies of relevant documents could be subpoenaed. Any hidden comments or revisions in these documents could then possibly be used as evidence.

Examples of hidden or personal information that are stored in Office documents include:

• Tracked changes, comments, annotations, and versions, even if not displayed
• Hidden text or data cells
• Presentation notes
• Previously deleted text
• Name of author and person who last modified the file

To protect any sensitive information from accidentally being made public, Information Technology Services recommends that you get into the habit of removing this information before distributing final electronic copies of your documents. There are some simple ways to do this, as described below.