hidden text and track changes

[jay]

I am experiencing a difficult problem. It seems that If I have an older
document (created in an earlier version of word) that uses track changes and
I change the deleted text option to "hidden text", the pagination of the
document gets all screwed up. turning a 40 page document into several
hundred. The problem is consistent from document to document and can be
reverted back by changing the setting.

I am on a mac using word 2004 for mac

anyone have any advice?

Jay

 

[matt neuburg]

I am experiencing a difficult problem. It seems that If I have an older
document (created in an earlier version of word) that uses track changes and
I change the deleted text option to "hidden text", the pagination of the
document gets all screwed up

So don't do that. If you want to hide deleted text, switch your view to
Final or Final Showing Markup. m.

 

[jay]

Hi Matt :::...

yes, that would be the obvious answer, but we still need to see all the
other changes with the track changes formatting included. so merely
switching the view doesn't work for us. We are trying to hide the deleted
text only. j.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Make sure that you don't have "hidden text" checked in either the View or
the Print tab of Word | Preferences. If you have hidden text set to print,
that would screw up the pagination.

 

[matt neuburg]

Hi Matt :::...

yes, that would be the obvious answer, but we still need to see all the
other changes with the track changes formatting included.

But that is what the balloons and review pane tell you. In other words
when I switch to Final Showing Markup I see exactly what you describe:
the inserted / reformatted text, and the deleted text is missing.
Instead of Hidden just choose None in the Track Changes Preferences as
the formatting for deleted text. m.