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Author name in MS Word

Anonymous
2022-07-27T01:49:16+00:00

When I create an MS Word document, it automatically saves me as the author of the document. When I send this over to someone to work on that and is saved by the second person, can the author name changes automatically? Is there any known issue like this ? Or the author name has to be changed manually from Info?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-27T01:57:37+00:00

    If another person saves the document on their computer, Word automatically adds them as a "Last Modified By" entry like this:

    If you want them to be shown as an Author, though, you must click the "Add an author" link.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-07-27T08:53:38+00:00

    Thank you Jay. This was my understanding too. Someone mentioned to me that there a known problem with Word that this is not a consistent behaviour and sometimes word automatically saves the next user as Author. I actually highly doubt this to be the case. So wanted to check if anyone else came across this behaviour.

    I am trying to investigate if plagiarism is in play.

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