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Track changes shows the wrong author
I got a Word document from someone with track changes
turned on. I have never been in the document before, however, when I opened it it shows me as the author of some of the changes in the document. In addition, the other changes are from two more people who were not in the document either - ever! Rather, all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a document that is not even remotely related to the one that shows the wrong authors. How is that possible? It is not pc specific nor user specific. It happens with three other people on different machines. We are using XP Professional, Word 2002. Any ideas? Thanks. Kikilein |
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Track changes shows the wrong author
Hi Kikilein
This can be a really annoying problem, and it can be tricky to track down. But it is possible! First, make sure you have updated your version of Office at http://office.microsoft.com/officeup...lt.aspx?CTT=98. I seem to remember that some of these problems were solved by one of the service packs for Word 2002. Second, if your odd reviewer happens to be named Allan Stratton, then you're a victim of an add-in for Word from Scansoft. It seems that Mr Stratton is a (now infamousg) ex-employee of Scansoft. You may have acquired the add-in when you got a scanner or printer. See http://www.google.com.au/groups?num=...ublic.wor d.*, and follow step (b) below. Third (and more likely) is that your strange reviewer was the reviewer of an un-accepted tracked change in either (a) the template on which your document was based, (b) an add-in or (c) normal.dot. So, (a) use Tools Templates and Add-ins to find out what template the document is based on. Use File Open to open that template (make sure the blue bar at the top of Word gives the name of the template and not, say, Document 1). And accept any changes in the template. For (b), use Tools Templates and Add-ins. Un-tick any add-ins listed one by one until you find out which is the culprint. For (c), use File Open to open normal.dot and proceed as for (a). Lastly, after making any of these changes, exit Word and re-start it. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word " wrote in message ... I got a Word document from someone with track changes turned on. I have never been in the document before, however, when I opened it it shows me as the author of some of the changes in the document. In addition, the other changes are from two more people who were not in the document either - ever! Rather, all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a document that is not even remotely related to the one that shows the wrong authors. How is that possible? It is not pc specific nor user specific. It happens with three other people on different machines. We are using XP Professional, Word 2002. Any ideas? Thanks. Kikilein |
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Track changes shows the wrong author
I have a similar problem. There are now 11 reviewers
showing and only 3 have ever had anything to do with this document. Now these reviewers show up in every new document as well. Anyone know how I can get rid of them? -----Original Message----- I got a Word document from someone with track changes turned on. I have never been in the document before, however, when I opened it it shows me as the author of some of the changes in the document. In addition, the other changes are from two more people who were not in the document either - ever! Rather, all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a document that is not even remotely related to the one that shows the wrong authors. How is that possible? It is not pc specific nor user specific. It happens with three other people on different machines. We are using XP Professional, Word 2002. Any ideas? Thanks. Kikilein . |
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Track changes shows the wrong author
See Shauna's answer to the question.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "anna" wrote in message ... I have a similar problem. There are now 11 reviewers showing and only 3 have ever had anything to do with this document. Now these reviewers show up in every new document as well. Anyone know how I can get rid of them? -----Original Message----- I got a Word document from someone with track changes turned on. I have never been in the document before, however, when I opened it it shows me as the author of some of the changes in the document. In addition, the other changes are from two more people who were not in the document either - ever! Rather, all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a document that is not even remotely related to the one that shows the wrong authors. How is that possible? It is not pc specific nor user specific. It happens with three other people on different machines. We are using XP Professional, Word 2002. Any ideas? Thanks. Kikilein . |
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Track changes shows the wrong author
Thank you very much for your extensive suggestions,
Kelly. Very informative. Yes, we do have all the updates for Word 2002 Also, keep in mind that all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a different document. I opened the "funky" document for the first time and all the reviewers, including me, have never been in the document. So the authors are not strange. One of the authors was me, so I know :-). I wonder where this information is being pulled from and even more importantly, why are random names entered. One idea I had was that the document might have gone through a metadata cleaner, but why are my and my colleagues' names in there. It should, if anything, show anonymous. Any more clues? Thanks again for your reply. -----Original Message----- See Shauna's answer to the question. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "anna" wrote in message ... I have a similar problem. There are now 11 reviewers showing and only 3 have ever had anything to do with this document. Now these reviewers show up in every new document as well. Anyone know how I can get rid of them? -----Original Message----- I got a Word document from someone with track changes turned on. I have never been in the document before, however, when I opened it it shows me as the author of some of the changes in the document. In addition, the other changes are from two more people who were not in the document either - ever! Rather, all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a document that is not even remotely related to the one that shows the wrong authors. How is that possible? It is not pc specific nor user specific. It happens with three other people on different machines. We are using XP Professional, Word 2002. Any ideas? Thanks. Kikilein . . |
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Track changes shows the wrong author
Hi anonymous
If you are seeing reviewers' names when you create a new document by using File New, then it is highly likely that there are unaccepted tracked changes in the template from which you're creating your new document. If you are doing File New and you are not explicitly choosing a template, then your documents are based on normal.dot. So the unaccepted tracked changes may be in normal.dot. To solve the problem, use File Open, navigate to the Templates folder, open the template, accept all the changes and save the template. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word wrote in message ... Thank you very much for your extensive suggestions, Kelly. Very informative. Yes, we do have all the updates for Word 2002 Also, keep in mind that all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a different document. I opened the "funky" document for the first time and all the reviewers, including me, have never been in the document. So the authors are not strange. One of the authors was me, so I know :-). I wonder where this information is being pulled from and even more importantly, why are random names entered. One idea I had was that the document might have gone through a metadata cleaner, but why are my and my colleagues' names in there. It should, if anything, show anonymous. Any more clues? Thanks again for your reply. -----Original Message----- See Shauna's answer to the question. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "anna" wrote in message ... I have a similar problem. There are now 11 reviewers showing and only 3 have ever had anything to do with this document. Now these reviewers show up in every new document as well. Anyone know how I can get rid of them? -----Original Message----- I got a Word document from someone with track changes turned on. I have never been in the document before, however, when I opened it it shows me as the author of some of the changes in the document. In addition, the other changes are from two more people who were not in the document either - ever! Rather, all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a document that is not even remotely related to the one that shows the wrong authors. How is that possible? It is not pc specific nor user specific. It happens with three other people on different machines. We are using XP Professional, Word 2002. Any ideas? Thanks. Kikilein . . |
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Track changes shows the wrong author
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:26:39 -0700, "
wrote: I got a Word document from someone with track changes turned on. I have never been in the document before, however, when I opened it it shows me as the author of some of the changes in the document. In addition, the other changes are from two more people who were not in the document either - ever! Rather, all the names that are showing up as authors are people that were working with me on a document that is not even remotely related to the one that shows the wrong authors. How is that possible? It is not pc specific nor user specific. It happens with three other people on different machines. We are using XP Professional, Word 2002. Although you might expect that the name of a reviewer is a document property, Word 2002 apparently thinks that it is a window property. That is, the list of reviewers that is presented to you is a list of all reviewers for all currently open documents and templates. To avoid confusion, you may need to close all but one document when dealing with reviewer names. The word is that Word 2003 has fixed this bug. Bob S |
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