Anonymous comments

As Suzanne said, you run the Document Inspector, after which Word tells you what it has found.

The next step is that you choose what to remove, specifically. In this case, that would be document properties and personal information.

Thank you for this information. I decided not to do the inspect document option as it would have removed my comments, etc. (I think). I tried your other suggestion, but it did not seem to work. I was able to change the name and initials but my name in the document comments did not change. Hmmm.

You can anonymize all comments using the Document Inspector (File | Inspect Document), but in this situation, it would make more sense to temporarily change the username and initials at File | Options | General.

You can't change the name in the comments retroactively. Changing your name and initials would apply only to new comments. Anonymizing the document would not delete your comments; it would attribute all comments (and tracked changes) to "Author." See, for example, https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/track-changes-all-authors-show-up-as-author/21544376-e3b1-477d-b35c-9ab385d40dda. But note that what you need to remove is not Comments, revision marks from tracked changes, versions, and ink annotations but Document properties and personal information.