How do I set up Track Changes so that it doesn't flag deletions?

[Shane in London]

I'm running Word 2002 SP-2. I the previous version of Word that I ran, you
were able to specify in Track Changes that you didn't want deletions to be
marked. I'm editing a document now, and all I want to do is show a line down
the outside of the page for changes, but all it will let me do for deletions
is show them scored through or with balloons. Surely Microsoft haven't made
the Track Changes feature less user friendly for Word 2002?

Looks like I'll either have to do it the old fashioned way and draw the
lines on with the cursor, or I'll have to bodge it by turning off Track
Changes to make my deletions, turning it back on again and inserting a space,
both of which will be exceedingly irritating and time consuming, and are in
my opinion quite a large step backwards.

Anybody know if I can highlight deletions with a line down the side of the
page only?

 

[Stefan Blom]

On the Track Changes tab of Tools | Options, disable the balloons and
set the display of deleted text to "Hidden."

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[Shane in London]

But that's what I'm saying - in Word 2002 there isn't an option to do so!

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'm sorry. You are right; the introduction of the balloons added some
features to track changes, but removed others--including the choice to
hide deletions. :-(

See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CustomizingWord2002.htm

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[Shane in London]

Thanks for the link - I guess I'm a "dismayed veteran user", according to
that site!

Hopefully when they get round to upgrading us to a newer version of Word,
I'll find that they've put this particularly quirk "back the way it was"; in
the meantime, I guess I'm resigned to marking my changes the old fashioned
way.

It all begs the question: Who, exactly, thought that the removal of a
perfectly good feature was a good idea?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?U2hhbmUgaW4gTG9uZG9u?=,

Hopefully when they get round to upgrading us to a newer version of Word,
I'll find that they've put this particularly quirk "back the way it was"; in
the meantime, I guess I'm resigned to marking my changes the old fashioned
way.

Oh, it's back in the later versions

It all begs the question: Who, exactly, thought that the removal of a
perfectly good feature was a good idea?

Probably some "expert" who thought he knew all about how everyone in the world
uses track changes. I always shake my head at the "new improved" mail merge
interface they spent so many resources on for Word 2002. A *modal* dialog box
for selecting fields? C'mon... WordPerfect wins the day, again!

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As you know, Word 2002 doesn't offer this option (it was restored in Word
2003), but see http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/Put_Track_Changes_Back_On_Track.htm
for a workaround.