(If there is and someone has discovered it, please leave a comment!)
But I have done that hard part for you.įirst, if you have a document that is showing “Author” instead of your name, stop doing any edits! I’m not sure if there is a way to change any edits back from “Author” to your name. Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac v16.39 Review MS Office 2019 for macOS is an industry standard program when it comes to creating professional and rich-media documents. The hard part was finding where that setting was located. The fix of changing “Author” to your name is incredibly easy as I said. If you’re a fan of Microsoft Word and have installed the Word app on your Mac, you may prefer it over Pages for certain tasks.
And it’s super easy! How To Fix Track Changes in Word for Mac Changing to “Author” and Not Your User Name They have been generically replaced with the word “Author.” It’s pretty maddening, right?
But when you re-open your edited document, all of your edits and/or comments no longer have your name. You save and close your document to come back to it later. You make a bunch of changes, edits, and comments. You receive a document to review and make edits to.
There are probably other (similar) solutions for Word for Windows, but that isn’t covered in this article. I’m writing this specifically for Microsoft Word for Mac. So, in filtering and reviewing possible solutions, there are a lot of different types of “solutions” that may have worked in previous versions (or on different platforms) that don’t work in the current versions of Microsoft Word. And on top of that, what works on Windows often doesn’t on the Mac versions. While Microsoft Word is also compatible with Mac computers, the only default word-processing software offered by Apple is the basic input and layout program, TextEdit. For example, on Mac, there is no Trust Center. Similar to Microsoft-based computers, Apple Macintosh has its own productivity suite, which includes the word-processing program Pages. And with each new version, there are subtle and not so subtle changes to the features and functionality. Word for Mac and Windows have both evolved over time. As with most support issues I encounter or am asked, I often turn to Google to see if others had encountered the same or similar issue.