Word 2004 Change Tracking Bubbles Missing

[Andy]

I have recently upgraded from Office v.X to Office 2004. One of the
upgrades that I was looking forward to was the new track changes
bubbles. Mine are just not there though.

I have the reviewing bar visible with the track changes button pressed
in.

I have clicked on Tools / Track Changes / Highlight Changes

All three choices are ticked

Under options the choices are default - Underline, Strikethrough,
None, Outside Border, By Author, Both choices under Balloons are
ticked

I have tried all the different page views

I have tried documents from different sources (authors)

I have tried, mactopia, help files and newsgroups to no avail

Nothing seems to work, so I am hoping that some clever soul can point
me in the right direction.

Thanks

Andy

 

[matt neuburg]

I have recently upgraded from Office v.X to Office 2004. One of the
upgrades that I was looking forward to was the new track changes
bubbles. Mine are just not there though.

You have to be in Page Layout view, *and* you have to have checked the
"Use Balloons" pref in the Track Changes panel of Word's preferences
dialog. m.

 

[Andy]

I have recently upgraded from Office v.X to Office 2004. One of the

You have to be in Page Layout view, *and* you have to have checked the
"Use Balloons" pref in the Track Changes panel of Word's preferences
dialog. m.

Thanks Matt

I was doing both of these things, oddly only comments appear at the
side of the page in balloons. Any change to text or formatting appears
as it did in pre Office 2004 versions, i.e. within the paragraphs -
yuk!

Perhaps I should have said that I am using OSX 10.3.4, not that I
believe that it is relevant

Thanks

Andy

 

[matt neuburg]

Thanks Matt

I was doing both of these things, oddly only comments appear at the
side of the page in balloons

Okay, then you also have to open the Reviewing Toolbar, set the current
mode to Final Showing Markup, and in the Show popup menu, check
Insertion and Deletions, Formatting, and All Reviewers. m.

 

[Andy]

Okay, then you also have to open the Reviewing Toolbar, set the current
mode to Final Showing Markup, and in the Show popup menu, check
Insertion and Deletions, Formatting, and All Reviewers. m.

Thanks Matt

All of those things are done as well!

Comments still work (i.e. show bubbles), but any other changes still
appear as though this was done in a previous version of Word, (i.e. no
bubbles).

Do you think I should speak to the nice people at Microsoft? I have
been absolutely convinced from the start that all of my settings are
correct.

Thanks again for your time.

Andy

 

[matt neuburg]

(e-mail address removed) (matt neuburg) wrote in message

Thanks Matt

All of those things are done as well!

I'm not an expert but I'm curious as to how this is possible. If you can
seem comment balloons you should be able to see tracking balloons.

Do you actually have any revisions to track? To find out, open the
Reviewing Pane. You should see any revisions, listed there. Double-click
on a revision header to jump to the revision.

If you definitely have revisions but you cannot see them as balloons,
could you send me the document? I'd like to see this for myself. m.

 

[Andy]

I'm not an expert but I'm curious as to how this is possible. If you can
seem comment balloons you should be able to see tracking balloons.

Yes indeed. They are nonetheless not there.

Do you actually have any revisions to track? To find out, open the
Reviewing Pane. You should see any revisions, listed there. Double-click
on a revision header to jump to the revision.

Yes I do, and I can see them quite clearly, comments and changes.

If you definitely have revisions but you cannot see them as balloons,
could you send me the document? I'd like to see this for myself. m.

I will rig up something and send it to you. It happens in all
documents.

I think that I will end up with a re-install, but it would be nice to
know if my Mac is doing something to the file.

Thanks again for your time.

Andy

 

[matt neuburg]

Yes indeed. They are nonetheless not there.


Yes I do, and I can see them quite clearly, comments and changes.


I will rig up something and send it to you. It happens in all
documents.

I think that I will end up with a re-install, but it would be nice to
know if my Mac is doing something to the file.

Yes, the way I figure it, if we see the same thing, it's the document
file, but if we see the same document differently, it's your copy of
Word. (The fact that this happens in all docs pretty well proves already
that it's the latter.) So this should be an easy test with a clear
outcome. m.

 

[Andy]

y Mac is doing something to the file.

Yes, the way I figure it, if we see the same thing, it's the document
file, but if we see the same document differently, it's your copy of
Word. (The fact that this happens in all docs pretty well proves already
that it's the latter.) So this should be an easy test with a clear
outcome. m.

Things get worse!

I coudn't send the document to you as it was to do with my work.
Instead I asked my colleague to look at what was happening. This time
I created a Word doc on one of our Win2K training PCs. I turned on
track changes and sent it to my coleague. He made some changes and
emailed it back to me. I put it onto a USB key and opened it on the
Mac. I could see his comments and changes in bubbles. Aaargh!

Can I ask you a question before I re-install the Office 2k+4 upgrade?

If you were to create a Word doc with a few words in it, then saved
it, then turned on track changes, then made some changes, would
bubbles appear at the side of the page with the changes in them?

Andy Hayes

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

I created a Word doc on one of our Win2K training PCs. I turned on
track changes and sent it to my coleague. He made some changes and
emailed it back to me. I put it onto a USB key and opened it on the
Mac. I could see his comments and changes in bubbles. Aaargh!

Can I ask you a question before I re-install the Office 2k+4 upgrade?

You said before it happens on all documents, but now it sounds like your
computer is showing changes in bubbles that were created in documents on
other computers...perhaps corruption in the template the documents are based
on, rather than a problem in your installation?

To test the default template, see here:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/MacWordNormal.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

See if the problem happens with documents created from a freshly generated
template....

DM

PS. Is it really any easier to type 2k+4 than 2004?

 

[matt neuburg]

If you were to create a Word doc with a few words in it, then saved it,
then turned on track changes, then made some changes, would bubbles
appear at the side of the page with the changes in them?

That would depend upon my settings in the Reviewing Toolbar and upon
what kind of changes they were. m.