"Accept Changes", Word 2000

[Shane V]

Greetings,
I'm running Windows 2000 with Word 2000 (as are most of my co-workers)
and I inherited a document that had a lot of changes. I accepted ALL the
changes and saved it, and I fully expected that the document was 'new' in
that I wouldn't see those old changes anymore. But when I open the document
and enable change tracking (For future revs), and 'View changes on the
document" so I can see them while I'm editing, all the OLD changes come
back.

I don't seem to see this in documents I created, and others don't seem
to see the problem, so it looks like it might be the document itself. Any
ideas???

Thanks,
Shane V.

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Shane,

If you copy/paste the document to a new document, do you still see the
problem?

I'm running Windows 2000 with Word 2000 (as are most of my co-workers)
and I inherited a document that had a lot of changes. I accepted ALL the
changes and saved it, and I fully expected that the document was 'new' in
that I wouldn't see those old changes anymore. But when I open the document
and enable change tracking (For future revs), and 'View changes on the
document" so I can see them while I'm editing, all the OLD changes come
back.

I don't seem to see this in documents I created, and others don't seem
to see the problem, so it looks like it might be the document itself. Any
ideas???

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Shane V]

Cindy,
Yes, I tried that without success. What I ended up doing was to
repeatedly go to and accept each change individually until it had no more to
accept (there were about 8 'levels' of changes. I'm guessing they had 8
people editing or something). Once I accepted all of them I highlighted the
entire document (except the first and last characters), and copy/pasted it
to a new one. Now it seems to be OK. So, that document seems to have been
handled, and I found a somewhat clumsy, but apparently effective means of
handling it in the future.

Shane


Hi Shane,

If you copy/paste the document to a new document, do you still see the
problem?

I'm running Windows 2000 with Word 2000 (as are most of my co-workers)
and I inherited a document that had a lot of changes. I accepted ALL the
changes and saved it, and I fully expected that the document was 'new' in
that I wouldn't see those old changes anymore. But when I open the document
and enable change tracking (For future revs), and 'View changes on the
document" so I can see them while I'm editing, all the OLD changes come
back.

I don't seem to see this in documents I created, and others don't seem
to see the problem, so it looks like it might be the document itself. Any
ideas???

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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