Track Changes: how to get changes to disappear for good?

[joannapaul]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

This may be a very trivial question, but it's long puzzled me: I have been using Track Changes on a document, and now have it finalised - all changes have been accepted and all comments deleted, so no 'bubbles' remain, but the coloured/underlined changes do still remain in the document. I know that I can select to view the document as 'final without markup', but even when I save the document on that 'view' and then close it, every time I reopen it it reappears as final *showing* markup. Is there any way that I can now effectively save this document as the final version *without* any changes ever being visible? I've tried pasting it into a new document and resaving it, but the changes still show up.

Thank you.

 

[Jeff Chapman]

You'll need to show the Reviewing toolbar from the View menu if it's not
already displayed. There's a button on there that says "Accept All Changes"
or something to that effect. Give that one a try. ;-)

Jeff

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
Processor: Intel

This may be a very trivial question, but it's long puzzled me: I have been
using Track Changes on a document, and now have it finalised - all changes
have been accepted and all comments deleted, so no 'bubbles' remain, but
the coloured/underlined changes do still remain in the document. I know
that I can select to view the document as 'final without markup', but even
when I save the document on that 'view' and then close it, every time I
reopen it it reappears as final *showing* markup. Is there any way that I
can now effectively save this document as the final version *without* any
changes ever being visible? I've tried pasting it into a new document and
resaving it, but the changes still show up.

Thank you.

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[joannapaul]

Thank you, Jeff, that's done it - I didn't realise it was something so simple!

 

[CyberTaz]

Make sure you turn the Track Changes feature OFF before accepting/rejecting
the changes -- otherwise, the acceptance/rejection becomes a tracked change.

The Display for Review options in the list where you're choosing Final
simply display what the document looks like, it does not remove the tracked
changes or the markup from the document.

If you've followed the proper procedure but the markup lingers on it's
entirely possible that the document has become corrupt... Quite probably
because of having tracked changes continuously throughout multiple editing
sessions. If that's the case see this page for un-corruption methods:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac