I just tested this and can confirm the results, which is unfortunate, as
that seemed like such a promising method.

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"MarkM" wrote in message
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

This short macro was posted by some helpful soul (I didn't note whom):

In the Immediate window of the VBA editor, type:

ActiveDocument.PrintOut Item:=wdPrintComments

and click Run.

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"MarkM" wrote in message
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I need to both track changes and insert comments in documents.
However, I
only want to share the comments when I send a document to someone for
review.
In Word 2000, these two features were entirely separate. Comments were
marked
in the text with a symbol like [MM01] and a list appeared at the end
with
the
comments numbered.

Word 2002 puts comments in balloons and gives you a choice on the
screen
whether to show comments, final with markup (insertions and deletions)
or
original with markup. So far so good.

However, I appear to have no choice over what shows when I print a
document.
I want to print only comments, but if I print "Document with markup"
it
prints all of the markup.

Has anyone found a way to either a) have Word 2002+ revert back to the
old
style of handling comments, or b) found a workaround to continue
tracking
changes but to print only comments?

Thanks for the suggestion, Suzanne. I'm not sure I understand what you
meant by: "In the Immediate window of the VBA editor, type:"

I created a macro with the code line and ran it, but what printed was just
all of the markup (insertions and deletions, as well as comments). It
printed
it as a list completely dissociated from the text. So that didn't help.

I have figured out a workaround: Save the document to a new name. Accept
all
changes. Then print it with markup. The comments alone will print because
there will be no other markup. I can then open the previous version ---
that
still contains the markup --- to continue editing.

However, this is cumbersome, so I'm still open to suggestions.

Thanks.