Legacy markup language showing in attachment sent to PC

[Barbara and Yogi Gupta]

I am currently running Tiger on a 2 GHZ Intel Duo iMac desktop machine new
in March 2006, and using the mac office 2004 11.3.8.

I opened a Word document created on my then-PC and transferred to the mac.
That 1998 document showed editorial changes in strikethrough, italics, and
bold. Needing to update and edit the document, I proceeded to make the
necessary changes. In the process I edited out all of the strikethroughs,
italics, and bolds. New changes were shown in yellow highlight. All
changes appeared correctly on my screen and in printed form.

I sent this document in its new form to a colleague as an Entourage
attachment. She saw artifacts of some old sections in italics. In one case
in which we had considered a paragraph in two forms, drafts A and B, I had
first deleted A and left B, saved the document, then replaced B with A, and
saved the document again. The version she received had B and not A.

At various points, I restarted Word, then restarted the computer, before
sending the attachment in a newly-constructed email. She still received
artifacts.

When I delivered a paper copy to her door, she was amazed at how easy it was
to read. Everything was as it should have been.

Is there a way to remove these artifacts of previous versions?

 

[CyberTaz]

Legacy markup language showing in attachment sent to PCDespite all you
describe I see nothing about having Accepted/Rejected *all* changes &
turning Track Changes Off in the doc before you saved & sent the copy. Any
of the other reviewing features (such as Final) merely hide the markup, they
do not remove it.

Based on the age & origin of the doc (especially if Track Changes has been
On all these years) it's also possible it has attained some degree of
corruption. You might want to consider the approaches on this page to
generate a "fresh" version of the file:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html
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HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

I am currently running Tiger on a 2 GHZ Intel Duo iMac desktop machine new
in March 2006, and using the mac office 2004 11.3.8.

I opened a Word document created on my then-PC and transferred to the mac.
That 1998 document showed editorial changes in strikethrough, italics, and
bold. Needing to update and edit the document, I proceeded to make the
necessary changes. In the process I edited out all of the strikethroughs,
italics, and bolds. New changes were shown in yellow highlight. All
changes appeared correctly on my screen and in printed form.

I sent this document in its new form to a colleague as an Entourage
attachment. She saw artifacts of some old sections in italics. In one case
in which we had considered a paragraph in two forms, drafts A and B, I had
first deleted A and left B, saved the document, then replaced B with A, and
saved the document again. The version she received had B and not A.

At various points, I restarted Word, then restarted the computer, before
sending the attachment in a newly-constructed email. She still received
artifacts.

When I delivered a paper copy to her door, she was amazed at how easy it was
to read. Everything was as it should have been.

Is there a way to remove these artifacts of previous versions?