With the document open, select “Word” in the Word menu at the top of the screen and click “Preferences” in the drop down menu. From the “Word Preferences” dialog box, select “User Information” under the “Personal Settings” heading. Delete all the personal information that is displayed, click “OK”, then save your document.
For those of you still struggling to find how to remove date/time from comments, this may help (Word 2016, Mac): Click ReviewProtectProtect documentUnder 'Privacy' tick 'Remove personal information from this file on save'. How to remove yourself from Internet search results and hide your identity. Here is a step-by-step guide to reducing your digital footprint online, whether you want to lock down data or vanish. Word ships with a tool called Document Inspector which you may use to remove unwanted data from Word documents. The tool can clean up the following content: Comments, Revisions and Versions. Document properties and Personal information. Task Pane Add-ins. Embedded documents. Macros, Forms and ActiveX Controls. Ink Annotations. Collapsed Headings. Then select where you want to save the file, type a name in the File Name box and click Save. Click File and then click Properties. On the Summary tab, make sure to delete any information you don't want to appear, such as Author, Title and Comments. Then click OK to accept the changes.
Moving to a new Mac? Before taking these steps, you can use Migration Assistant to move your files from the old Mac to your new Mac.
Create a backup
Make sure that you have a current backup of your important files. Learn how to back up your Mac.
Sign out of iTunes in macOS Mojave or earlier
If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes. From the menu bar at the top of the screen or iTunes window, choose Account > Authorizations > Deauthorize This Computer. Then enter your Apple ID and password and click Deauthorize.
Learn more about deauthorizing computers used with your iTunes account.
Sign out of iCloud
If you're using macOS Catalina or later, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Apple ID. Select Overview in the sidebar, then click Sign Out.
If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click iCloud, then click Sign Out.
You will be asked whether to keep a copy of your iCloud data on this Mac. You can click Keep a Copy, because you're erasing your Mac later. Your iCloud data remains in iCloud and on any other devices that are signed in to iCloud with your Apple ID.
Sign out of iMessage
If you're using OS X Mountain Lion or later, open the Messages app, then choose Messages > Preferences from the menu bar. Click iMessage, then click Sign Out.
Reset NVRAM
Shut down your Mac, then turn it on and immediately press and hold these four keys together: Option, Command, P, and R. Release the keys after about 20 seconds. This clears user settings from memory and restores certain security features that might have been altered.
Learn more about resetting NVRAM or PRAM.
Optional: Unpair Bluetooth devices that you’re keeping
If your Mac is paired with a Bluetooth keyboard, mouse, trackpad, or other Bluetooth device that you plan to keep, you can unpair it. This optional step prevents accidental input when the Mac and device have separate owners but remain in Bluetooth range of each other.
If you're unpairing Bluetooth input devices from a desktop computer such as an iMac, Mac mini, or Mac Pro, you must plug in a USB keyboard and mouse to complete the remaining steps in this article.
To unpair a Bluetooth device, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Bluetooth. Move your pointer over the device that you want to unpair, then click the remove (x) button next to the device name.
Erase your hard drive and reinstall macOS
The best way to restore your Mac to factory settings is to erase your hard drive and reinstall macOS.
After macOS installation is complete, the Mac restarts to a setup assistant that asks you to choose a country or region. To leave the Mac in an out-of-box state, don't continue setup. Instead, press Command-Q to shut down the Mac. When the new owner turns on the Mac, the setup assistant guides them through the setup process.
No matter the model or condition, we can turn your device into something good for you and good for the planet: Learn how to trade in or recycle your Mac with Apple Trade In.
How to remove timestamps from existing comments in Word document?
Normally, when inserting comment in Word document, a timestamp will be created automatically at the same time as below screenshot shown. Sometimes, you don’t want to display the timestamp of the comment, how can you remove it? This article will show you a method to deal with it.
Remove timestamps from existing comments in Word
Please do as follows to remove timestamps from existing comments in a Word document.
1. Open the folder contains the Word document which you will remove the timestamp from the existing comments.
2. Make sure the File name extensions box is checked, then, right click the file and select Rename option, change extension of the Word document from “.docx” to “.zip”, then press the Enter key. See screenshot:
3. In the opening Rename prompt box, click the Yes button.
4. Now the Word document is turned to a zip file as below screenshot shown, please unzip this file. In this case, I right click the zip file and select WinZip > Unzip to unzip the file.
5. Then the file has been unzipped in current folder. You need to find and open a folder which named “word”, and open the comment.xml file and the document.xml file separately with the Notepad application. Please right click it, and then choose Open with > Notepad. See screenshot:
6. In the opening comments.xml – Notepad window, you need to:
- 6.1) Press the Ctrl + F keys to open the Find dialog box;
- 6.2) Enter 'Your Name' w:date=' into the Find what box (here I enter “siluvia” w:date=”) and click the Find Next button.
- 6.3）Then the searched result will be highlighted in the window, please replace the 'Your Name' w:date=' with 'Your Name' w:ignore='.
- 6.4）Repeat the above two steps until all occurrences of 'Your Name' w:date=' are changed to 'Your Name' w:ignore='.
- 6.5) Save and close the file. See screenshot:
7. Repeat the step 6 to change all occurrences of 'Your Name' w:date='to 'Your Name' w:ignore=' in the document.xml –notepad window.
8. Rezip all files and folders you have unzipped out in step 4. Now a new zip file is created as below screenshot shown.
9. Convert the zip file to a Word document by changing the extension of the zip file to .docx. See screenshot.
Note: you can change the document name to the original one as you need.
Open the Word document, you can see all timestamps of existing comments are removed.
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How To Remove Personal Data From Comments Word For Macs
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Changes all the dates to January 1, 1900 so looks really suspicious
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.It worked for me. I used Total Commander for renaming the files - and Notepad for search and replace. Thank you!
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Worked for me. Thanks!! Used WinZip. Didn't work with RAR.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.It didn't work for me either
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.This did not work for me. I used WinRAR, don't know if this caused the problem. The Word file could not be opened afterwards.