Reject all header/footer changes from reviewer

[Paul]

I got a Word document back from a reviewer with tracked insertions,
deletions, and comments. These exist in the main text and the
footnotes. However, I also get slew of changes to variables in the
header and footer, which are all time-stamped exactly the same time.
In other words, they look like a document-wide variable update. I see
these in my own documents, too.

I want to merge the reviewer's tracked changes into my baseline
document, but I don't want to bring in all the klag in the header and
footer. Any way to do this? If I open the Reviewing Pane in the
Reviewer's document and select all the changes in the "Header and
footer changes" section, the "Reject Change/Delete Comment" button is
grayed out. If I right-click on the swath of selected changes and
choose "Reject insertion" (for some reason, they are all insertions,
though the baseline document isn't all insertions), they do not all go
away.

Thanks for any suggestions. I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I got a Word document back from a reviewer with tracked insertions,
deletions, and comments. These exist in the main text and the
footnotes. However, I also get slew of changes to variables in the
header and footer, which are all time-stamped exactly the same time.
In other words, they look like a document-wide variable update. I see
these in my own documents, too.

I want to merge the reviewer's tracked changes into my baseline
document, but I don't want to bring in all the klag in the header and
footer. Any way to do this? If I open the Reviewing Pane in the
Reviewer's document and select all the changes in the "Header and
footer changes" section, the "Reject Change/Delete Comment" button is
grayed out. If I right-click on the swath of selected changes and
choose "Reject insertion" (for some reason, they are all insertions,
though the baseline document isn't all insertions), they do not all go
away.

Thanks for any suggestions. I am using Word 2003 on Windows XP.

I don't think there's any way to do this through the toolbar buttons.
You can use this macro (see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
if needed):

Sub RejectChangesInHeaderFooter()
' Reject all the tracked changes in headers
' and footers, but leave all in the main text
Dim oRev As Revision
Dim oRg As Range

For Each oRg In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
Do
Select Case oRg.StoryType
Case wdPrimaryFooterStory, wdPrimaryHeaderStory, _
wdFirstPageFooterStory, wdFirstPageHeaderStory, _
wdEvenPagesFooterStory, wdEvenPagesHeaderStory
For Each oRev In oRg.Revisions
oRev.Reject
Next
Case Else
' do nothing
End Select
Set oRg = oRg.NextStoryRange
Loop Until oRg Is Nothing
Next
End Sub

 

[Paul]

I don't think there's any way to do this through the toolbar buttons.
You can use this macro (seehttp://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
if needed):

Sub RejectChangesInHeaderFooter()
    ' Reject all the tracked changes in headers
    ' and footers, but leave all in the main text
    Dim oRev As Revision
    Dim oRg As Range

    For Each oRg In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
      Do
        Select Case oRg.StoryType
        Case wdPrimaryFooterStory, wdPrimaryHeaderStory, _
             wdFirstPageFooterStory, wdFirstPageHeaderStory, _
             wdEvenPagesFooterStory, wdEvenPagesHeaderStory
            For Each oRev In oRg.Revisions
                oRev.Reject
            Next
        Case Else
            ' do nothing
        End Select
        Set oRg = oRg.NextStoryRange
      Loop Until oRg Is Nothing
    Next
End Sub

Thanks, Jay. Turns out I might not need it, but it's good for future
reference. Undoubtedly, I will run into the problem again.

Why don't I need it? I just opened up the same file from the reviewer
again, and the "Header and footer changes" section is devoid of any
changes. I didn't save it from when I last opened it, so I am led to
believe that the changes I saw last time were created automatically
some time after I opened the file. Probably some kind of automatic
periodic updating of variables, maybe related to repagination. I'm
just guessing.