A script to anonymize a Word document's track changes.

track_changes_anon.sh

#change the working directory to the Desktop
cd ~/Desktop

#unzip the word doc into a new directory called anonDocument
unzip myDocument.docx -d anonDocument/

#search all of the files in the word doc package and replace any comment or track changes author with anonymous edit
grep -rl "w:author" ./anonDocument | xargs sed -i '' 's/w:author="[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*"/w:author="anonymous edit"/g'

#change the working directory to the anonDocument directory
cd anonDocument

#create a new word doc on the Desktop called cleanDocument.docx
zip -r ../cleanDocument.docx .

#change the working directory back to the Desktop
cd ..

#remove unzipped document folder from the desktop
rm -r anonDocument

#open the new document
open cleanDocument.docx

You can read more about this script on my blog