Tracking Changes. Not every Word document is the product of a single person. Occasionally (or perhaps frequently) you may collaborate with others. Original Showing Markup. Display insertions and formatting changes in balloons. Deleted text remains visible. Display the document as if all. Jul 17, 2017 - “Make sure this change matches the resolution to comment 74.” “Let's have the other author weigh in on comments 90 through 112.” “Ditto comment 3.”. That feature appears to have been removed with the 2016 Word update. (This may be Comment Text or Balloon Text, or another name.).

I'm using the Track Changes feature in Word 2011 (Mac) and I need to eliminate the time stamp feature that accompanies edits altogether. I turned off (unchecked) the 'Include reviewer, time stamp, and action buttons' selection in 'Show Markup > Preferences' pane, and while this does eliminate the reviewer and date/time stamp in the editorial balloons, when I hover over a balloon, a window appears that reveals the reviewer and date/time stamp! How can I prevent this from happening? Many thanks to all and make it a great day!

Thanks, Paul. I found this same question posed on a PC-based Word forum, and a respondent offered the following instructions for addressing this issue in Word 2007 (PC) On the Office button menu, go to Prepare > Inspect Document. After inspecting the document, when the results panel shows up, click the button to remove all 'Document Properties and Personal Information'. Then save the document.

The dates and times will be removed from all tracked changes, and the reviewer name will be changed to 'Author'. This won't do if you're using custom document properties, because those would be removed at the same time. After many hours of poking around, I discovered that you CAN suppress the date & time stamp from Track Changes--here's how to do it (in Word for Mac 2011, at any rate): Go to 'Word > Preferences > Personal Settings > Security > Privacy Options' and check 'Remove personal information from this file on save' then save the document. No more date or time stamp in Track Changes comments and edits in this document. This is positively Byzantine, but I'm glad the option exists!

I found that if you're saving the Word document as docx, you can edit the XML directly and remove the timestamps this way. Follow the procedure below if you want to do this: 1. Rename the file to zip so it becomes a ZIP archive and you can easily open it using the appropriate tools 2. Open the renamed file, it will now open as a ZIP archive 3. Office 2016 home and business downl…. Open the word folder in the ZIP archive 4. Open and edit the document.xml file in a good text editor. For example use Notepad++ 5.

Any other folders that this user was given permissions to access will be visible in the folder list or appropriate modules. The mailbox you added is now in your folder list and the calendars you have permission to view will be listed in the Calendar pane.

Search using the following regular expression: w:date='[ d W]* w[ d W]* w' and replace with nothing. This regular expression will match all XML timestamp attributes and remove them from the document.xml file. Update the ZIP archive with the modified document.xml file 7. Rename the ZIP archive back to docx sothat it becomes a Word document again. I found that if you're saving the Word document as docx, you can edit the XML directly and remove the timestamps this way. Thanks wordguru, that's exactly what I needed! I know this is an old thread, but I still found it useful, so in the spirit of paying it forward, some pointers to those still looking to solve this issue.