How to change the author name for comment in Word

Changing colors for a specific author in track changes for Word 2013 Hello all, I created a word document, sent it off to three people, and received separate comments and edits (with Track Changes on) from each of them. How to Change Your User Name for Track Changes in Word. Select the Review tab in the ribbon. Select the dialog box launcher in the Tracking group. Select the Change User Name button in the Track Changes Options dialog box. Change the user name and/or the initials in the Word Options dialog box. Dec 21, 2011  If you are just trying to change the name that appears when you add a change in the document, you can go to Word - Preferences - User Information, and update your name there. Any additional changes will be logged under the new name you enter in Word Preferences. Actually, I need to change someone else's name.

This article is talking about changing the default author name for comments, or changing the existing author name in a document to a new one. Please try the below two methods.

Change the comments’ author name for future use

If you want to change the comment’s author name for future use, please change the User Name in Word Options window.

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1. In an opened Word document, click File > Options. In the Word Options window, make sure you are locating in the General tab, change the name in the User name box as below screenshot shown, and finally click the OK button.

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Now you have changed the default user name for comments in Word document.

Change the existing comment’s author name of a document

If you have received a document with lots of comments, and you want to change all comments’ author names to a certain one, the following VBA code will do you a favor.

1. Select the range contains comments or select the whole document you will change the author names by pressing the Ctrl + A keys, press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

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2. In the opening Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module. Then copy below VBA code into the Module window.

VBA code: Change the existing comments’ author name of document

3. Press the F5 key to run the code. In the opening Comments Author Name dialog box, enter the new author name into the textbox and click the OK button.

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4. In the next opening Comments initials dialog box, enter the initials as you need and click the OK button.

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Then all comments’ author names in selected range are changed to the specified one immediately as below screenshot shown.

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    Thanks for the tutorial. it really helped me
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    Many thanks for this. Works Perfect. A warning though; all comments will be changed, regardless of multiple authors. Something that didn't bother me.
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    Here is a modified Macro that will allow you to first specify the Name your want to replace in case there are other comments that you don't want to modify.
    Sub ChangeCommentAuthor()
    'Updated by EntendOffice 20181112
    Dim I As Long
    Dim xOldName As String
    Dim xNewName As String
    Dim xShortName As String
    If Selection.Comments.Count = 0 Then
    MsgBox 'No comments in your selection!', vbInformation, 'KuTools for Word'
    Exit Sub
    End If
    xOldName = InputBox('Old author name?', 'KuTools for Word')
    xNewName = InputBox('New author name?', 'KuTools for Word')
    xShortName = InputBox('New author initials?', 'KuTools for Word')
    If xOldName = ' Or xNewName = ' Or xShortName = ' Then
    MsgBox 'The author name/initials can’t be empty.', vbInformation, 'Kutools for Word'
    Exit Sub
    End If
    With Selection
    For I = 1 To .Comments.Count
    If .Comments(I).Author = xOldName Then
    .Comments(I).Author = xNewName
    .Comments(I).Initial = xShortName
    End If
    Next I
    End With
    End Sub
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    The VBA script worked perfectly to change the name of the author to my company name. Thank you!
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