It should be possible to do this at any point unless the document is
protected for tracked changes.

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"Rugbyveteran" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried to use the arrows, the drop downs,
the
buttons, etc. Nothing. I don't get it. I saw another post on a macro,
but
that is way out of my league.

I have so many of these documents to go through, I would hate to have to
start from scratch.

Any other ideas? Have you tried it? Take a document and make changes to
it
and save it without accepting or rejecting them. Then, open it up again
and
don't make any changes and see if you can accept or reject what has
already
been changed. That is pretty much where I am at.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Have you tried clicking the arrow beside the Accept Change button and
choosing Accept All Changes in Document? Similarly, the Reject
Change/Delete
Comment menu includes Delete All Comments in Document. Make sure you
have
all these types of markup displayed on the Show menu.

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"Rugbyveteran" wrote in message
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Suzanne, All,

I have similar issues. What my problem is, I have documents that are
older.
They have been updated several times by different people. They are
controlled company documents with sensitive information in them. I am
now
reviewing these documents and finding all the mark ups. I have tried
your
suggestions to accept or reject them, however, I don't have the
ability to
do
that. Word doesn't have the accept or reject buttons highlighted to
allow
me
to actually accept them or reject them. Is it because they are old
and
had
been saved into the document with being accepted or rejected first?

How can a user, new to the document, open the doc, highlight all the
mark
ups and make a decision on them? Or, if the document is old and
wasn't
saved
properly, are the mark ups there forever?

What has to happen is, the documents need to exist with no mark ups at
all
in them. They need to be clean and professional.

Thanks,


Dave

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

To add to what Jay has said, you need to be aware that, regardless
of
your
settings, if you send a document containing markup, that markup
*will*
be
displayed if the recipient has "Make hidden markup..." enabled. As
Jay
pointed out, the only way to ensure that markup will not be seen is
to
remove it.

That said, however, if you have "Make hidden markup visible..."
disabled,
then I would regard it as a bug if Word opens a document containing
tracked
changes in a view showing markup.

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"Mark" wrote in message
...
I too believe I am having a similar issue. I would like to save a
file
with
the track changes still within the document, but not visible to
others
that I
send the file too. I have turned off the "Make hidden markup
visible
when
opening or saving" in the options/security box. I then turned off
all
of
the
boxes in the "Show" dropdown. I saved the file. I then reopen it
and
all
of
the boxes in the "Show drop down are back on and the comments and
changes
are
visible again. Is this normal or should this process actually
make
the
changes invisible within the document? I understand that I can
save a
file
after I accept all changes, but I prefer that I did not have to
duplicate
the
document. If this process is supposed to work, is there a problem
with
the
program? Thank you for any response to this issue.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Since I could never understand what the problem was and since
Brian
never
sent me a sample document, there was no further development. But
I
don't
see
how you can tell that you're having "the same problem," since I
never
could
understand what the problem was!

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"Juanita" wrote in message
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Did this problem ever get solved? I'm having the same
problem.
Juanita Londenberg

"Brian" wrote:

If you can e-mail me I can get you a copy of the document.
I
dont
want
to
put my e-mail address out in the open like this.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Which suggestion? Have you disabled the "Make hidden
markup
visible"
check
box? What exactly do you mean by "it will show me what the
document
used to
be"? In other words, are you actually seeing markup, or
are
you
seeing
a
previous version? I'm wondering if the document was saved
using
versions or
if perhaps the markup was created manually (not using
Track
Changes)
or if
there could be some other explanation. If we can't get to
the
bottom
of
this, perhaps I can look at a sample document and see what
is
going
on.

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"Brian" wrote in message
news I am sorry I didnt mean to come off like an a$$ hole.

I can assure you that I have done the suggestion and the
problem
has
not
been fixed. Everytime I open a document it will show me
what
the
document
used to be.

As far as just making new ones. I know that sounds like
the
logical
choice
and I do do that now but these letter that I deal with
are
all
from
Years
before my time so I had no control over them being
created
or
re-used.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

I think you're still missing the point. If the
document
had
been
modified in
the past without Track Changes turned on, these
changes
would
not
be
displayed. But you can still remove the markup by
selecting
Accept
All
Changes in Document on the menu you get when you click
beside
Accept
Change
on the Reviewing toolbar. The only way to be sure of
not
seeing
markup
is to
remove it by accepting the changes.

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"Brian" wrote in
message

...
That might work "if I WANT word to track my changes"
You
are
sugusting
a
fix
that is not addressing the problem.

I want to be able to open a document that had been
modified
in
the
past
and
NOT, I repeat NOT see the changes.

It is something to do with Microsoft Word not the
document
because if
I
open
the document turn off markup close the document
(With a
save)
and try
to
re-open the document IT SILL SHOWS THE MARKUP.(I am
not
trying
to yell
just
show emphasis)

Has anyone (who is offering sujestions) tried
opening an
old
document,
that
has been re worded a few times, to see what I am
talking
about?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You can open the document without showing markup
in
two
ways:

1. Clear the check box for "Make hidden markup
visible
when
opening
or
saving" on the Security tab of Tools | Options
(the
dangerous
way).

2. Remove the markup by accepting all changes (the
better
way).

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