Track changes and change bars

[Stella Rivera]

Track changes is making me crazy. When I accept the changes, and change the
view to final, my change bars disappear. I need a document in final view
that shows change bars--how do I do this? I am using Word 2003. Appreciate
any help.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Track changes is making me crazy. When I accept the changes, and
change the view to final, my change bars disappear. I need a
document in final view that shows change bars--how do I do this? I
am using Word 2003. Appreciate any help.

Hi Stella,

I thought we settled this last month.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...b3bc66ddccb7?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#cb5ab3bc66ddccb7

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Stella Rivera]

Hello Jay,
In my previous post regarding change bars I didn't mention changing the
view--in this document I changed the view to final and thats when the change
bars disappeared. If I'm understanding correctly I can't change the view to
final after accepting the changes and see the change bars--is that right? I
am really looking forward to changing to Framemaker in a few months to
produce my technical documentation package.

 

[grammatim]

FrameMaker was superb, but it was bought out by Adobe so that they
could kill it off in favor of (originally) PageMaker and (now)
InDesign. FrameMaker 7.2 doesn't have a Track Changes-like feature;
it's not likely there will ever be a v.8.

They've finally gotten all the essential word processing features into
InDesign CS4, but again there isn't any Track Changes.

 

[Jay Freedman]

After you accept all changes, there aren't going to be change bars in any
view, because what used to be the changes are now incorporated in the "base"
document and aren't considered changes any longer.

 

[PamC via OfficeKB.com]

You understand correctly. The change bars are revision marks that are not
displayed in final view. Note, though, that with insertion markup set to
none, deletion to hidden, balloons turned off, and change bars turned on, the
final and markup pages should look the same--except for the change bars.

Hello Jay,
In my previous post regarding change bars I didn't mention changing the
view--in this document I changed the view to final and thats when the change
bars disappeared. If I'm understanding correctly I can't change the view to
final after accepting the changes and see the change bars--is that right? I
am really looking forward to changing to Framemaker in a few months to
produce my technical documentation package.[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]

I thought we settled this last month.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...b3bc66ddccb7?hl=en&lnk=st&q=#cb5ab3bc66ddccb7