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
- Insert, delete, or change a comment. Word 2016 for Mac Word for Mac 2011 More. Use comments in your document to make suggestions to other people or to track issues for follow-up. Insert a comment. Select the text you want to comment on, or click at the end of the text. On the Review tab, click New Comment.
- Aug 16, 2017 To activate Microsoft Word on my new laptop, I had to open a Microsoft account, but I didn’t use my real name. Now, when I edit a document in Word and add a.
- Dec 21, 2011 If you are just trying to change the name that appears when you add a change in the document, you can go to Word - Preferences - User Information, and update your name there. Any additional changes will be logged under the new name you enter in Word Preferences. Actually, I need to change someone else's name.
Display all changes inline. The default in Word is to display deletions and comments in balloons in the margins of the document. However, you can change the display to show comments inline and all deletions with strikethroughs instead of inside balloons. On the Review tab, in the Tracking group, select Show Markup.
If you want to change the comment’s author name for future use, please change the User Name in Word Options window.
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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.
Now you have changed the default user name for comments in Word document.
Change the existing comment’s author name of a document
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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.
Microsoft office 2010 product key full version. 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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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Thanks for the tutorial. it really helped me
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Many thanks for this. Works Perfect. A warning though; all comments will be changed, regardless of multiple authors. Something that didn't bother me.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.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 - To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.The VBA script worked perfectly to change the name of the author to my company name. Thank you!
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Yardımı oldu, teşekkürler.