Anonymizing Comments in Word - For Mac 2011

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poutitanne Posted messages 50 Status Membre -  
 Mama -
Hello,

After searching the forum and not finding the information, I am reaching out to you. I need to anonymize comments made in a file, in Word, for Mac 2011 (Version 14.3.5.).
In the context of my work, I have many files to evaluate and annotate... it would save me precious time to be able to anonymize the comments!
HELP!
(I would like to specify that I tried to use the "Office Button," "Inspect," as recommended to others on the forum, but I couldn't find it...)

Thank you in advance for your valuable response!

Poutitanne

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Aliboron Martin Posted messages 3655 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   989
 
"Office button", "Inspect", these are indications corresponding to versions for Windows...

Let's talk Mac! ;-) Curiously, the name of a comment's author is read-only in Word's Visual Basic, but it can be modified by AppleScript. So we can run a small loop to clean up a document:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
set author of every Word comment in document "/Users/shortname/Desktop/Document1.docx" to " "
end tell

Note: you need to put at least one space between the quotation marks. If you put nothing, the comment will be deleted.

P.S.: your version of Office 2011 should be at 14.7.7 for a long time now (that's the "final" version, released in September 2017!)

Hello at your place!
Bernard
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Aliboron Martin Posted messages 3655 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   989
 
To anonymize the comments in a document being edited, you can go to the "Security" tab in the Word preferences and check the box "Remove personal information...", which will replace the names in all comments with "Author":
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sarah---0309 Posted messages 1 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   > Aliboron Martin Posted messages 3655 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention  
 
Hello, I have the same problem as the original question but I don't have that "remove personal info from file" option in my security tab.
I looked everywhere in the Word preferences but couldn't find it.
I'm using version 16.33.
Could you please tell me how to proceed?
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Aliboron Martin Posted messages 3655 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   989 > sarah---0309 Posted messages 1 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 
I think it's now in the "Privacy Statement" tab that it's happening. But the title is not exactly clear... I'll see if I can find some details...
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Mama > sarah---0309 Posted messages 1 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention  
 
With version 16 of Word, you need to go to "Tools" -> "Protect Document" -> Click on "Remove personal information from this file on save."
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