"Reject All Changes" & formats in Word 2000

[proofreader]

If I select "Reject All Changes," my font format changes (bold, italic)
remain. If I select "Accept All Changes," my format changes ARE incorporated.
How do I return the document to its original formats without displaying the
proposed changes?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

You've posted in a MacWord group, so most of the people reading this
don't know what your menus look like. It would be better to ask your
question on the general Word newsgroups. Start here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx

If you want to try messing with it a bit further before posting
again--I'd experiment ON A COPY--

My guess would be--see if you can set it to Show only Format Changes,
and Reject those, and then Show the rest of the changes, and Accept
those. I'm not totally sure what's available in Word 2000, though, so no
point in responding here if you can't figure that out, cause I won't
know how to do that in your program either.

There's a lot of excellent information about Track Changes here, which
may be helpful, I'm not sure.
http://shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html

 

[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

You need to go up a level in Word.

Formatting was not a tracked change in Word 2000. Which I regarded as a
great benefit of Word 2000, and made that product a lot more stable than its
successors

If your formatting is done with styles, select the affected text and hit
Ctrl + SpaceBar, Ctrl + q to restore the Font and Paragraph formatting
respectively.

If you're using direct formatting, you have much less control. You can't
revert, you will have to put it right manually.

Cheers

If I select "Reject All Changes," my font format changes (bold, italic)
remain. If I select "Accept All Changes," my format changes ARE incorporated.
How do I return the document to its original formats without displaying the
proposed changes?

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[proofreader]

Very helpful, thanks so much.

You need to go up a level in Word.

Formatting was not a tracked change in Word 2000. Which I regarded as a
great benefit of Word 2000, and made that product a lot more stable than its
successors

If your formatting is done with styles, select the affected text and hit
Ctrl + SpaceBar, Ctrl + q to restore the Font and Paragraph formatting
respectively.

If you're using direct formatting, you have much less control. You can't
revert, you will have to put it right manually.

Cheers

If I select "Reject All Changes," my font format changes (bold, italic)
remain. If I select "Accept All Changes," my format changes ARE incorporated.
How do I return the document to its original formats without displaying the
proposed changes?

--

Please reply to the newsgroup to maintain the thread. Please do not email
me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Business Analyst, Consultant
Technical Writer.
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I'm guessing you picked Word from a very long dropdown menu? That
dropdown menu is trememdously stupid, that's how. The group that just
says Word is the MacWord group. If you look further down the dropdown
menu that lists the groups, you'll see a bunch of groups starting with
Word, like Word Application Errors (if you type "word space a" really
quickly, it will jump you there, and you'll see about 10 different
groups). Not your fault in any way whatsoever.

The link I suggested instead is a different interface to the same
groups, designed to be a bit more user friendly, partially by hiding
some of the groups.