Doomed templates because of "Final showing markup"?

[ptrively]

Hello all,

I'll start with my question, besides "Make hidden markup visible when
opening or saving" under the security tab, is there anyway to ensure a
document opens up as "Final"?

Our system development life cycle uses the markup feaure and reviewing
pane in order to imbed instructions into our templates. This has been
working out very well for our developers, if they are confused on a line
item, they can simply open the review pane and click away!

Now in thier "wisdom" MS no longer lets me make a document "Final". Just
because a document has comments doesn't mean it's not finished. I feel
they're like speaker notes.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hello all,

I'll start with my question, besides "Make hidden markup visible when
opening or saving" under the security tab, is there anyway to ensure a
document opens up as "Final"?

Our system development life cycle uses the markup feaure and reviewing
pane in order to imbed instructions into our templates. This has been
working out very well for our developers, if they are confused on a
line item, they can simply open the review pane and click away!

Now in thier "wisdom" MS no longer lets me make a document "Final".
Just because a document has comments doesn't mean it's not finished.
I feel they're like speaker notes.

Whether a document displays the markup or not has nothing to do with whether
it's finished. "Final" in this sense is only an arbitrary name for "after
applying changes". "Final with markup" shows how it got that way. In either
case, the markup is still in the document; it's just visible or hidden.

Why are you excluding the use of the "Make hidden markup visible when
opening or saving" option on the security tab? That is the mechanism that
controls how the document opens. However, it's possible to override even
that setting with a macro. Put this macro in a module in your Normal.dot
template or in a global template
(http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm):

Sub AutoOpen()
With ActiveWindow.View
.ShowRevisionsAndComments = False
.RevisionsView = wdRevisionsViewFinal
End With
End Sub