Hi Mark:
This was a design change in Office 2008.
The issue was that users would hide Tracked Changes and forget to turn it
off, meaning that the document would steadily gain weight and internal
complexity. After about three weeks of daily editing, the document will
corrupt and the users would lose the entire content.
So this was programmed in as a way to alert the user that the document
contains unresolved tracked changes. And consequently, it can't be
defeated.
The best you can do is close the toolbar each time you open the document.
It will then stay away until you next open the document.
And please note the warning that turning Tracked Changes on and leaving it
on is dangerous: eventually the document won't open at all, and often,
"Recover Text" is unable to get the content back when that happens.
Cheers
this is one of those small things about word that drives me up a wall:
whenever i turn track changes on and hit ok in the dialog box, a track
changes toolbar suddenly appears. i don't want it there. i just want
to edit what looks like a normal document with word tracking changes
in the background.
is there any way to make this toolbar stop appearing automatically?
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