Word automatically maintains several items of information about you, as a user. One such item is your initials, which can be changed in this manner:
If you want to automatically insert your initials in your documents, you can follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Field dialog box.
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2021-07-11 18:54:06
Michelle
Hi, regarding track changes and adding user initials - is it at all possible somehow to update the user initials AFTER the edits have been made?
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