When Track Changes is deselected the Print Layout View does not g.

[EricM]

The most distracting thing about the latest version of Word is the way Track
Changes displays changes. It takes the Print View (Isn't it supposed to be
WYSIWYG?) and alters the page layout to accommodate comments and changes.
First that is useless on the first few drafts due to the crowding and second
it makes document format corrects difficult. What would be really nice is to
see the index number, page #, line #, problem, correction/comment dumped to a
..wks file so it can be acted upon. The same info could be shown in a frame
just as style selection is. The changes.comments can be linked by highlights
just as Acrobat does in .pdf file keyword searches.

The fact that when track changes goes away when deselected but the page
formatting doesn't is a program bug that should never have gotten out.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Actually, the default display of tracked changes and comments in Word 2002
and 2003 (using balloons) was designed specifically not to alter the layout
of the page. Print Layout view (which I assume is what you are referring to)
is never fully WYSIWYG. The only fully WYSIWYG view is Print Preview, but if
you use Print Preview when tracked changes are displayed, you will see that
in fact the page will print with the balloons. The document text, however,
is displayed as nearly as possible to what will print when changes are
accepted.