The Trust Center should open on “ Privacy Options” (if not, select it).

In the “Trust Center” dialog box, click the “ Trust Center Settings” button.

In the “Options” box, select “ Trust Center” at the bottom of the left-hand menu.

To turn on or off the removal of personal information from a document upon save in Office 2010 or 2013, follow these steps: This is a document setting, not a global setting, so changing it for a given document changes it for that document only. If your redlines are changing to “Author” on save, it’s because this option is turned on in your document. If this option is selected, metadata (including names of redline owners) is stripped out of the document when it is saved. Word includes an option in the Trust Center which lets you remove all personal information from a document upon save. On the flip side, there are times you may want to remove all of the personal information in a document regarding authors (e.g., when releasing a policy or document that had multiple authors, and you don’t want to show who worked on what parts). (I’ve had situations where my business team commented on a draft assuming the “Author” redlines in an agreement were my redlines, when they were really from the other side.) This author information for redlines is one example of the “metadata” that Microsoft Word saves with your document. There’s nothing more frustrating than redlining a document only to find your edits changed to Author the second you save your draft. The Track Changes Options dialog box.You’ve probably noticed that in certain documents, as soon as you click “Save” all of your Word redlines change color and switch from your name to “Author.” If you’re like me, when negotiating or commenting up a document with others I prefer to “layer” redlines in different colors so everyone knows whose comments and redlines are whose. This can help avoid confusion and keep the negotiation process running as efficiently as possible. Word displays the Track Changes Options dialog box. In the Tracking group, click the small arrow at the bottom right of the group (it's the one pointing down and to the right).The steps for Word 2013 are slightly different: Click the down-arrow under the Track Changes tool (in the Tracking group) and then click Change Tracking Options.Make sure the Review tab of the ribbon is displayed.

If you'd rather that Word didn't even keep track of formatting changes at all, then you can follow these steps for Word 2007 and Word 2010: With this option turned off, Word still tracks formatting changes behind-the-scenes, but it doesn't display those changes. Make sure that there is no check mark next to Formatting. You'll see a list of various items that Word can track and show.

First, display the Review tab of the ribbon and click on the Show Markup tool. There are actually a couple of ways you can approach this issue. He wonders if there is a way to have Word not call out the formatting changes and only include all other types of changes, making this approach be the default. Bob finds it very distracting that formatting changes are called-out in the changes list. Bob uses Track Changes quite a bit in his documents and finds it very useful-except for one thing.

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