Any way to preserve line numbers while revising?

[mooseo]

It would be quite reasonable if this turns out to be an impossible
request, but I'll give it a try.

I have a manuscript that went out for review. Many of the reviewers'
comments are referenced to line numbers in the original document. As I
make changes, of course, the line numbers change, which gets to be
frustrating. I'm wondering if there is any way to preserve the old
line numbers (perhaps as deleted text in "Track Changes" or as
comments) so that I can see them.

I'm currently just using a hard copy of the document as a reference,
which is certainly a serviceable alternative, but if anyone has a
different solution, I'd be interested to hear it.

thanks,
mike

 

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Mike,

See the macros I posted in microsoft.public.newusers in reply to John:

Newsgroups: microsoft.public.word.newusers
Subject: Lines numbers fixed in position? Paragraphs numbers?
From: John <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:45:19 GMT

I just noticed that you should run the first macro in Page Layout view.
It doesn't seem to work in Normal (Draft) view.

If you haven't used bookmarks much before: Ctrl+Shift+F5 brings up the bookmarks dialog quickly, to go to a certain page/line.

Regards,
Klaus