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I wrote a Ruby script that basically does the following: If we could sift through the contents of the XML and find the bits where the reviewers are identified, we could enumerate them and then anonymize them on an individual basis. We want to isolate that reviewer, not mix in the grumpy comments with the good.ĭoesn't Microsoft now use an open standard, Office Open XML (OOXML), for all of their documents? Can't we just go in there and tweak things a bit?

This reviewer has just been turned down for promotion, missed a big grant, and got some bad gas station coffee. Typically you'll get two good reviewers and then one who is just out in left field. In our scientific journal editor workflow example above, the graduate student doesn't know who to hate. The comments that have been made using the Track Changes feature have been anonymized into a single entity called "Author". This file now has no more metadata in it. and save a copy of the file, naming it something like MyFile-clean.docx. Step 2: Go to Word / Preferences / Security and check the box under "Privacy options" that says "Remove personal information from this file on save." Step 1: Open a saved copy of the document. Microsoft's solution to this is to strip all personal identifying information (which they like to refer to by the acronymn PII) from the document in the following way: That way the graduate student only knows to hate "Reviewer number 2" instead of a specific person. Notice step 4, in which the identity of the reviewers is cast into shadow. Return paper to graduate student, who reads it and weeps.Receive article back from reviewers, bathed in blood-red ink.Receive article from fresh-faced graduate student.Now consider the case of an editor of a scientific journal. You can then see their comments and corrections. Microsoft Word 2011 lets you turn on the Track Changes feature and distribute your files to friends and colleagues.