how to disable track change

[Harvey]

Hi everyone,
We have a very large template with many customized toolbars and functions.
Sometimes users turn on the track change which creates a lot of problem in
the template. My question is how can I disable track change command in
reviewing toolbar , in tool menu and also on the buttom of the page ( grayed
out TRK ).
Thank you so much for any help

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Harvey

There's no way to disable track changes that would stop a savvy user for
more than 10 seconds. You could spend a lot of time trying, but in the end,
your hurdles could still be jumped over. My advice would be to spend the
time adjusting the template so that it can work with track changes.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word

 

[Bear]

Harvey:

Shauna is right. Fixing your template is the right thing to do.

However, if you want to try to do the wrong thing, you might look into
intercepting Word commands. Two commands that you'd want to intercept are

ToolsRevisions
ToolsRevisionMarksToggle

You'd want to make sure the customization and subs went into your document
template only.

You might replace the designed functionality with a message box that advises
the user why it's a bad idea to use track changes with your template. As
Shauna says, the determined user will find a way to circumvent your
customizations, but at least you'd get the chance to explain why they
shouldn't.

Bear

 

[Harvey]

Thank you Shauna and Bear ,
Changing the template is almost impossible because it has over 60 custom
made functions and hundreds of lines of VBA code. But intercepting the
coomand might be a good idea I try to use it and see what will happen.
thank you very much
Harvey

 

[Harvey]

It seems it is working fine. Track Changes was really a huge file corruption
issue in our templates; I think MS must give the user the option to disable
the Trackchanges because in large documents (>15MB it creates file corruption)

 

[Susan O]

This is utterly hopeless. I have the same issue w/ a long manuscript. I
don't know what I hit to make my document suddenly shift 3" to the right,
nothing seems to fix it except hitting final view every time I open the
blasted document. Because I don't knwo what I did, I can't begin to fix it,
I just have to live with it. I hate anything and everything to do with
tracking changes, I don't ever want to use the track changes, and I really
really really wish I could permanently shut the damn thing off. I don't even
use spell check until right before printing, because it's a major hassle when
using foreign words and lots of names that aren't recognized. The choices of
"accept" or "reject" seem to do the opposite of what I desire, and I spend
far too much time trying to reset edits. I really want to hunt down the
programmer and slap them silly. The more they mess with Word, the worse a
program it gets to be.

Susan O.