Change default comment format

[c_atiel]

I do not want initials ever at the beginning of comments on an Excel 2007
spreadsheet.
This should not be the problem it seems to be.
It is an annoying waste of time to manually delete them when creating a
comment.
There does not seem to be a way to alter the default formatting for
comments, short of altering the default font, which still requires altering
Windows system fonts just as it did in Excel for Windows 3.X, which says a
lot about Microsoft programming.
Removing initials from "personalize your copy of Excel" does not work as
Excel ignores this and recreates the initials.
Stripping the author's name from the spreadsheet metadata does not work.
Worse Excel insists those initials be in Bold face.
Short of writing a macro is there a simple way to get rid of comment
initials completely and forever?

 

[ozgrid.com]

The only way I know of is replace your initials with a Space in Excel
Options username.

 

[Dave Peterson]

Debra Dalgleish shares some tips here:
http://contextures.com/xlcomments03.html#Name

And if a macro is ok, you can do lots more:
http://contextures.com/xlcomments03.html#Plain

 

[c_atiel]

Using a space does not work, Excel replaces the initials.
I do not understand why a complex macro is required to accomplish so simple
a thing.

 

[ozgrid.com]

It worked for me on Excel 2007.