It sounds as if you are using Word 2002 and 2003, and your documents are
opening in the Final Showing Markup view. If you don't want to see the
markup, you can switch to Final, but be aware that this doesn't actually
remove the markup. If you want to accept the changes and move forward, click
the arrow next to the Accept Change button on the Reviewing toolbar and
choose Accept All Changes in Document on the menu. And if you don't want new
corrections to be marked, turn off Track Changes.

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"businesswriter" wrote in message
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I've recently updated my computer and my old, shared Word documents are
now
opening with all previous corrections, which makes them difficult to edit.
I'm not very good at formatting new docs so, I'd really like to continue
using the ones that have already been created (by someone else.) thanks