Who is "Author?" Part 2

Thanks to some great comments from Jeremy and PamC on the Who is "Author?" post it looks there are a few additional points worth making about the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Document Inspector.

Since this is only mentioned briefly in Who is "Author?," I wanted to call-out that only the personally identifiable information Document Inspector was used by Sally's client. This is why Sally's client's tracked changes were not removed, but the associated PII was removed.

Also, it's important to note that once PII is removed from a document using the PII Document Inspector, it cannot be brought back. The only thing that can be done is to enable "future" PII to be saved in the document. How to do this—enable PII to be saved in the document moving forward—is the overall message of Who is "Author?".

Finally, when you use the PII Document Inspector you will not see "Author" until you run the PII Document Inspector and save. Put differently, if you have some tracked changes attributed to yourself and run the PII Document Inspector, you will see your name associated with them until you save. If you make more changes after that save, you will see your name next to those new changes until your next save.

-Jonathan

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  • I read your post on "Quick Styles" awhile back and after reading it I still have some out-standing questions. (Comments are disabled on that particular post so I'm asking my question here.) When I attempt to create and set a new Quick Style, it will stay in the Quick Styles pane (or the "More" dropdown pane) until I close out the program, but it will not remain as a "Quick Style" when I reopen Word with a new document. I love the "Quick Style" features, however, it would be very helpful to be able to set my own customized Quick Styles that would persist even after I closed down Microsoft Word and, especially, would carry over into new documents. Am I doing something incorrectly, or does Word not provide for this type of setting? Thanks, Nicole

  • Nicole--

    If it's a quick style, you can save it for use in all new documents by using the Set as Default command at the bottom of the Change Styles menu. Or if just want it available but not the default, you can use the Save As command on the Style Set flyout menu to name it and have it available. Stuart (Apple Valley High, '82 )

  • Nicole--

    If it's a quick style, you can save it for use in all new documents by using the Set as Default command at the bottom of the Change Styles menu. Or if just want it available but not the default, you can use the Save As command on the Style Set flyout menu to name it and have it available. Stuart (Apple Valley High, '82 )

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