How do I keep my name from appearing in the comment box in excel

[Old Abuelo]

How do I keep my name from appearing in the comment box in excel?

When I open the comment box in Excel it automaticaly includes my name. How
can I prevent this or better yet how can I set it up to enter the date
instead of my name automaticaly?

Thanks.

[Jon Peltier]

This automatically appears when you manually add a comment, but you can
delete this text. You can't change what appears in the status bar when a
comment is visible ("Cell A1 Commented by User Name") after the comment is
created.

You can change what appears in both places by changing the user name under
Tools menu > Options > General tab.

- Jon
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"Old Abuelo" <Old Abuelo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6E08BEB2-28B4-4E99-A728-7F0EF8B8A2F1@microsoft.com...
> How do I keep my name from appearing in the comment box in excel?
>
> When I open the comment box in Excel it automaticaly includes my name. How
> can I prevent this or better yet how can I set it up to enter the date
> instead of my name automaticaly?
>
> Thanks.

[Ragdyer]

You can easily remove your name from displaying by:

<Tools. <Options> <General> tab,
And replace whatever's in the "User name" box with a <space>.

However, this does leave a colon in place of the name in the comment .

If you wish to use code to effect changes, Debra Dalgleish has a number of
choices at this web page:

http://www.contextures.com/xlcomments03.html

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HTH,

RD

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"Old Abuelo" <Old Abuelo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6E08BEB2-28B4-4E99-A728-7F0EF8B8A2F1@microsoft.com...
> How do I keep my name from appearing in the comment box in excel?
>
> When I open the comment box in Excel it automaticaly includes my name. How
> can I prevent this or better yet how can I set it up to enter the date
> instead of my name automaticaly?
>
> Thanks.