How to disable the reviewing toolbar in Word 2003

[S Claus]

Hi

[NOTE: this is for Word 2003, Windows XP]

would be great if Microsoft made it possible to truly disable unwanted
and un-needed functionality in their software.

One piece of such functionality is the reviewing tool bar.

I want to have it disabled for all documents, but NOT JUST THE TOOL
BAR. I want the entire reviewing and change tracking functionality
automatically disabled for all documents. Meaning: I do not want Word
to track any changes to any documents ever.

So even when I receive a document with change tracking enabled, I want
Word to automatically turn off the tracking.

For example, adding a macro that disables the tool bar is a ridiculous
"solution". It only disables the tool bar. If the document has change
tracking enabled, Word will continue tracking the changes...whether
the reviewing tool bar is visible / available, or not.

I am also not interested of a solution that would require me to go
through some button pressing / review / approval etc process. Just a
simple automatic disabling of the change tracking, that is all.

Is this impossible to accomplish?

Or it that in this time and age user behavior tracking is too
important a feature to disable?

Is there perhaps a registry or Group Policy setting that can be used
for this? I have not see any Group Policy setting but could be I
missed something.



Thanks in advance,

 

[Graham Mayor]

What you ask is not possible, though it is easy enough to work around with
the macros you appear to ridicule. It is to cater for the whims of users
that macros are provided. It is simply unrealistic to expect that every
conceivable option be added that some user or other may demand. You have to
work with what you have.

Adding the following lines to an autoopen macro in the normal template will
ensure that changes are not tracked for all documents and will accept all
revisions in the document.

With ActiveDocument
.AcceptAllRevisions
.TrackRevisions = False
End With

You can ensure that the review toolbar is not displayed by adding the
following command to both an autonew and an autoexec macro

CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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