One step at a time:

- If the Reviewing toolbar isn't visible, go to the View menu, click
Toolbars, and check Reviewing.
- On the Reviewing toolbar, from the left, the items are (1) a dropdown
selecting what's visible -- should be "Final Showing Markup"; (2) a Show
button; (3) a Previous button; (4) a Next button; and then you get to (5) an
Accept Change button. This one has a black triangle pointing down; click
that triangle to get a little menu.
- The last item on that menu is "Accept All Changes in Document". That's
what Margaret referred to.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

D Robinson wrote:
There is no "Accept all Changes" option on my copy of MS Word 2003,
SP1. I right click on a change and it has options: "accept deletion"
or "reject deletion". It does NOT have "accept change". I cannot
find ANY option anywhere that says "accept all changes." This is
truly a huge pain in the butt.

"Margaret Aldis" wrote:

You are confusing several different issues here.

'Protecting for tracked changes' is a setting that locks the
document so that changes are tracked and the user can't turn it off
from the toolbar. It isn't the same as just having tracked changes
set 'on' (so any changes are marked), nor is it the same as having
changes (insertions and deletions) showing up in the document.

Word 2003 will by default open documents in the 'Final showing
mark-up' view if there are tracked changes in the document (whether
or not tracking is currently on, whether or not document is
protected for tracking). If documents created in earlier versions of
Word open like this, then it is because you were (perhaps
inadvertently) tracking changes at some time in the past, and you
have never accepted/rejected those changes. Word 2003 has a new view
default here, but it doesn't turn tracking (or protection) on and it
certainly can't generate revisions that weren't already in the
document! I assume the idea of the new view default was to alert
people to the revisions stored in their document to avoid
embarrassment, though from the posts here it often seems to ensure
that Word 2003 recipients see changes Word 2002 senders had
forgotten about without even trying to snoop g.

The only way of removing changes in documents is to accept or reject
the changes. But if all you want to do is clean out the revision
marking, without any backtracking of the changes you've made, you
just turn off tracking (if it's still on) and 'Accept all changes'
(available on the dropdown menu beside the Accept Change button) -
you don't have to accept each change individually. You can *view*
the document without the changes by choosing Final without Markup,
but that will leave the changes in the file, and they will be
visible on opening.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org

"CarolChris" wrote in message
...
If it is not enabled by default, why then does a form created in an
earlier version of Word and protected as a form (not for tracked
changes) open in Word 2003 displaying the tracked changes? It
seems that Word 2003 thinks the form is protected for tracked
changes. My company recently updated to Office 2003, and this issue
with forms has been a major complaint from many users.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Track Changes is not enabled by default in any version of Word. If
it is turned on for a specific document, then it is because you or
the document creator turned it on.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

"
wrote in message
...
Is it possible to turn it off so that it does not track any
revisions and comments at all?

To clean up every file by accepting or rejecting all revision
marks and deleting all comments is a waste of time. The feature
may be useful,
but
the
user should be able to decide when to use it.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

What part of it do you want to change? Have you looked at the
options on
the
Track Changes tab of Tools | Options?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so all may benefit.

"
wrote in message
...
How to override the track changes default?