Word 97 – Delete non-authored comments

Running Word 97 Pro SR-2 in a mixed 2000/NT environment, and we have a contract template which one person has marked up extensively with comments. However, for the purposes of sending the actual contract out to clients, we need for other users to be able to delete (or completely hide so the clients can’t see them) the comments. Apparently Word won’t let you do this – only the user who created the comments can delete them. Any ideas for a workaround?