Permanent Deletion of Tracked Changes

[Al Jankowiecz]

I cannot find a way to save a Word doc in such a manner
that no one can ever go in to the "Show" box and change
the view in order to see what my changes were. Given
this, I am no longer willing to e-mail Word docs.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Al

Unfortunately the view you get of revisions is not stored in the document
but depends on the settings on the reader's machine.

I'm not clear what you want to do here. If you want to be sure that the user
will see your revisions clearly marked in the way you intend, then the only
way around this would be to create an AutoOpen macro to set the view, but
you may feel mailing documents containing macros is even less unacceptable.

If on the other hand you want to be sure a reader *can't* see your changes,
then you need to send a version of the document in which you have accepted
all changes, so that there are no revisions to see. You might also want to
look at the Word Help topic "Remove personal or hidden information".