Open document-mod.xml in Word and save as document-mod.docx.(Ditto for any other names that need changing.) Do a global search and replace for Fred Smith replaced by XYZ.Open document-mod.xml in a text editor, or if in Word be sure to edit it as plain text.Say copy document.docx to document-mod.docx ( NOTE!!!!Your mileage may vary, I am not responsible for any butchering of your documents! Make backups! Caveat emptor. The best advice I saw was at, but none of it is really simple.īut, let’s say I want to change every occurrence of Fred Smith to XYZ. Now, for the tracked changes, there seems to be no simple solution. It’s no good if you want to change only some. So, this changes all comments to be by XYZ. Here is the suggested VBA code: Sub ChangeAllAuthorNamesInComments()įor Each objComment In ActiveDocument.Comments Let’s say you’ve got a document with tracked changes in it, and the reviewer changes and comments are supposed to be by a corporate name - say XYZ Editing (apologies if this business exists) but they have been put in as by Fred Smith, an employee of XYZ.Ĭhanging the author of comments is pretty straightforward.
