Reviewing Pane: count changes

[Allan Editor]

Every so often I spend a half-hour trying to figure this out, so far with no
luck.

In Word 2003:
I am an editor and often want to be able to specify the number of edits I
have made in a manuscript, often numbering in the thousands. I have found no
simple way of getting a copy of the material in the Reviewing Pane, other
than actually printing out a copy (which for long MSs would be hundreds of
pages just of Markup). I have in mind that if I could just get a copy of
that in text, I could count the number of times my name appears as Author.
I have tried copying the contents but it will only copy single items. Or I
could estimate the number of items if I could just get a copy of Reviewing
Pane in Print Preview. I tried to use Print To pdf, but that failed. Any
ideas? Thanks a lot!

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP on news.microsoft.com]

Run a macro containing the following code, replacing Me with you name as it
appears as the author of a revision

Dim arev As Revision
Dim i As Long
i = 0
For Each arev In ActiveDocument.Revisions
If arev.Author = "Me" Then
i = i + 1
End If
Next arev
MsgBox "Me has made " & i & "edits to the document."


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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com