Hi Charlie,

If the cause is a corrupted document, then you need to take one precaution
while making the new document: Be careful not to copy the final paragraph
mark from the end of the old document. (This is easier to do if nonprinting
characters are visible.) That paragraph mark -- or section breaks, if the
document contains any -- is the usual place where corruptions live.

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CharlieTuneA wrote:
Thank you, Suzanne.

I looked for any running macros, but could not find any. I guess
there's some kind of an error in the document. It happens to be a
very mature document that's been around for several years, and has
been through numerous versions of Word and many changes over the
years. I suppose I can create a new document and paste everything
from the old document in. That might take care of it.


This is *not* normal. I would look for a macro that is causing this
behavior.

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"CharlieTuneA" wrote in
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Jay,

Thank you for the information. However, what is happening is this:

I accepted all changes in the document. Then I turned Track Changes
off (by double-clicking the TRK symbol. Then I saved the document
and closed it.

When I re-open the document, the TRK symbol is turned on, and any
changes I make are marked as changes (unless I turn the TRK symbol
off again.)

So what I need to know is: How do I save the document so that when
I open it, change tracking is not turned on.

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"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 13:17:29 -0800, CharlieTuneA
wrote:

I was using change tracking in a Word 2003 document, but now want
to turn it off. I turn of tracking, save the document and close
it, but when I re-open it, tracking is always on.

Thank you in advance.

There's a difference between having Track Changes "turned on" (that
is, new changes will continue to be marked) and having previously
tracked changes displayed.

I think what you're seeing is that Track Changes is turned off (if
you insert or delete something more, it won't be marked), but the
document is showing you the previous changes.

You can hide the changes by setting the dropdown on the Reviewing
toolbar to Final. You can remove all the changes from the document
by clicking the down arrow next to the Accept Change button and
selecting Accept All Changes.

You can turn off the automatic display of the on opening a
document by going into Tools Options Security and unchecking
"Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving". That probably
isn't a good idea, though, unless you never give your document
files to anyone else. If there are changes in the document, even
if they're hidden so you don't notice they're there, the recipient
can read them easily. That can be embarrassing or, in the worst
case, a security threat.

For more explanation, see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html.

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