Tips, Tricks & Other Helpful Hints: Changing Name & Initials in Comment Fields

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Sometimes Word files with comments in them appear to have a common set of initials for all comment fields. Often it appears as SNR or SN and then the comment number. There are times in which it is important to distinguish who made each comment.

1. Open a Word file.

2. Click on the “File” tab and choose “Options.”

3. In the “General” section in “Personalize your copy of Microsoft Office,” change the “User name” and “Initials.” (Common practice appears to be using your Blackboard login name and your initials.)

4. Click “OK.”

These instructions, along with illustrations of this, can also be found in SharePoint > Software Users Group > Shared Documents > Word > Changing the Name-Initials that Appear in Comment Fields.