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My editor has sent me a copy-edited manuscript of 200 pages in which accents
have been added to three names that occur throughout. I want to remove those
accents. These account for 98% of the changes, and the names occur hundreds
of times. And yet--can this be true?--Word does not appear to have an "Accept
All Instances of This Change" option, otherwise known as a Global Change or a
command to Change Throughout. I have worked with other software that does
allow this. Obviously, it's the chief benefit of copy-editing on computer.
If I click on Accept All Changes, it does just that--wiping out every change
of every kind. Not what I want. If I switch off tracking and make the changes
myself it creates new problems when tracking is switched back on, adding yet
more comments re the new changes I've made and leaving the old change
comments. When I click on Reject Change, it adds the deleted name in blue to
the text, making reading the thing virtually impossible.
Please tell me there is a way to accept all instances of a single change
(lopez to Lopez, for example) without accepting every other change in the
document. I've checked the Web but haven't found anything.
have been added to three names that occur throughout. I want to remove those
accents. These account for 98% of the changes, and the names occur hundreds
of times. And yet--can this be true?--Word does not appear to have an "Accept
All Instances of This Change" option, otherwise known as a Global Change or a
command to Change Throughout. I have worked with other software that does
allow this. Obviously, it's the chief benefit of copy-editing on computer.
If I click on Accept All Changes, it does just that--wiping out every change
of every kind. Not what I want. If I switch off tracking and make the changes
myself it creates new problems when tracking is switched back on, adding yet
more comments re the new changes I've made and leaving the old change
comments. When I click on Reject Change, it adds the deleted name in blue to
the text, making reading the thing virtually impossible.
Please tell me there is a way to accept all instances of a single change
(lopez to Lopez, for example) without accepting every other change in the
document. I've checked the Web but haven't found anything.