When the macro is done running, it may not appear like anything has changed.
Thank you for sharing the link robleyd September 8, 2019, 8:29am 2. Try to fill your informations in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - User Data. Enter a new name and initials when prompted. Whenever I am using track changes, the author name is displayed as ‘unknown author’. SInitial = InputBox("New author initials?", _Īll you need to do is make a selection that contains the comment you want to modify (select the text in the main document that includes the comment indicator) and then run the macro. SAuthorname = InputBox("New author name?", _ Now the Word Options dialog box will pop up. Then click Track Change in Tracking group.
Method 1: Edit User Name First and foremost, click Review tab. VbCritical + vbOKOnly, "Cannot perform action" 2 Methods to Change Author Names for Comments Sometimes, instead of deleting author names, we prefer to change them. Each comment has Author and Initial properties that, respectively, represent the comment author's name and initials. When a comment is created, it is added to the Comments collection, which can be accessed through VBA. MsgBox "No comments in your selection!", _ Perhaps a better approach is to use a macro to make the changes. The following macro is an example of how these can be changed: Perhaps a better approach is to use a macro to make the changes. (You can copy the comment into the Clipboard and then paste it back into the document.) This has a downside, however, as the date and time stamp for the comment will be updated to reflect when you recreated the comment. First, you could change the user name and initials to the name you want in the comments and then, effectively, recreate the comments. There are a couple of things you can do to make the changes. When she is ready to finalize the document, but with Track Changes still on, Denise wonders if she can go back and change the user name on one or more comments. Denise notes that when she uses Track Changes and inserts a comment, the user's name shows in the comment.