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Opening a word doc w/o showing markups
I have a document that is constantly changed because its used as a base
document. Now every time its opened it shows the mark ups people have done, I have done some research and have done whats suggested such as; going into the security section and unticking (and ticking) to show mark-ups when opening box, I have also seen something mentioned to accept changes, that box isnt available to press as well as the track changes (which isnt on). I want to just open the document normally without all the changes, without having to tick show Final. Let me know if you have any suggestions Thanks |
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Opening a word doc w/o showing markups
I have several suggestions:
1. Hiding markup is not the same as removing it. To actually get rid of it, you need to Accept All Changes in Document (not just set the view to Final). If there are no changes to accept, then perhaps the document contains comments? You'll need to Delete All Comments in Document. 2. Sounds to me like you shouldn't be tracking changes in the first place, so turn Track Changes off (if it is on). 3. The main problem, though, is that you're trying to use a document as a template. Create a template instead (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm) and the problem won't arise. -- 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. "seb" wrote in message ... I have a document that is constantly changed because its used as a base document. Now every time its opened it shows the mark ups people have done, I have done some research and have done whats suggested such as; going into the security section and unticking (and ticking) to show mark-ups when opening box, I have also seen something mentioned to accept changes, that box isnt available to press as well as the track changes (which isnt on). I want to just open the document normally without all the changes, without having to tick show Final. Let me know if you have any suggestions Thanks |
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I have a similar if not the same problem. We use markup and track changes
options on most of our documents. However most of the time that I wish to read a document I wish to see it with the markup hidden. At present documents always open as 'Show Final with Markup'. So I have to select the 'Show Final' for each document. I have put the Show menu as an option on my tool bar to make this process quicker, however it is still a pain, particularly as after I have changed to Show Final' I then have to change the display to Whole Page width to increase the size of display. I know I could create a macro to do all this. Does anyone know of a way that I could set 'Show Final' as my default option? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I have several suggestions: 1. Hiding markup is not the same as removing it. To actually get rid of it, you need to Accept All Changes in Document (not just set the view to Final). If there are no changes to accept, then perhaps the document contains comments? You'll need to Delete All Comments in Document. 2. Sounds to me like you shouldn't be tracking changes in the first place, so turn Track Changes off (if it is on). 3. The main problem, though, is that you're trying to use a document as a template. Create a template instead (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm) and the problem won't arise. -- 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. "seb" wrote in message ... I have a document that is constantly changed because its used as a base document. Now every time its opened it shows the mark ups people have done, I have done some research and have done whats suggested such as; going into the security section and unticking (and ticking) to show mark-ups when opening box, I have also seen something mentioned to accept changes, that box isnt available to press as well as the track changes (which isnt on). I want to just open the document normally without all the changes, without having to tick show Final. Let me know if you have any suggestions Thanks |
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No that didn't make any difference. I have also tried changing the Show
setting in my Normal.dot file to 'Show Final' That doesn't work either, in fact I don't think the information is stored in the Normal.dot file. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can disable the feature (Tools | Options | Security) to "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving," but many users report that this does not keep Word from opening in Final Showing Markup view. -- 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. "Penny Stockley" Penny wrote in message ... I have a similar if not the same problem. We use markup and track changes options on most of our documents. However most of the time that I wish to read a document I wish to see it with the markup hidden. At present documents always open as 'Show Final with Markup'. So I have to select the 'Show Final' for each document. I have put the Show menu as an option on my tool bar to make this process quicker, however it is still a pain, particularly as after I have changed to Show Final' I then have to change the display to Whole Page width to increase the size of display. I know I could create a macro to do all this. Does anyone know of a way that I could set 'Show Final' as my default option? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I have several suggestions: 1. Hiding markup is not the same as removing it. To actually get rid of it, you need to Accept All Changes in Document (not just set the view to Final). If there are no changes to accept, then perhaps the document contains comments? You'll need to Delete All Comments in Document. 2. Sounds to me like you shouldn't be tracking changes in the first place, so turn Track Changes off (if it is on). 3. The main problem, though, is that you're trying to use a document as a template. Create a template instead (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm) and the problem won't arise. -- 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. "seb" wrote in message ... I have a document that is constantly changed because its used as a base document. Now every time its opened it shows the mark ups people have done, I have done some research and have done whats suggested such as; going into the security section and unticking (and ticking) to show mark-ups when opening box, I have also seen something mentioned to accept changes, that box isnt available to press as well as the track changes (which isnt on). I want to just open the document normally without all the changes, without having to tick show Final. Let me know if you have any suggestions Thanks |
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The best I can figure, (a) if a document contains markup, it's always going
to open that way, and (b) if the Reviewing toolbar is displayed, it's always going to be in Final Showing Markup view. But see Review Toolbar Annoyance at http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=221 for one issue that might be involved. -- 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. "Penny Stockley" wrote in message ... No that didn't make any difference. I have also tried changing the Show setting in my Normal.dot file to 'Show Final' That doesn't work either, in fact I don't think the information is stored in the Normal.dot file. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can disable the feature (Tools | Options | Security) to "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving," but many users report that this does not keep Word from opening in Final Showing Markup view. -- 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. "Penny Stockley" Penny wrote in message ... I have a similar if not the same problem. We use markup and track changes options on most of our documents. However most of the time that I wish to read a document I wish to see it with the markup hidden. At present documents always open as 'Show Final with Markup'. So I have to select the 'Show Final' for each document. I have put the Show menu as an option on my tool bar to make this process quicker, however it is still a pain, particularly as after I have changed to Show Final' I then have to change the display to Whole Page width to increase the size of display. I know I could create a macro to do all this. Does anyone know of a way that I could set 'Show Final' as my default option? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I have several suggestions: 1. Hiding markup is not the same as removing it. To actually get rid of it, you need to Accept All Changes in Document (not just set the view to Final). If there are no changes to accept, then perhaps the document contains comments? You'll need to Delete All Comments in Document. 2. Sounds to me like you shouldn't be tracking changes in the first place, so turn Track Changes off (if it is on). 3. The main problem, though, is that you're trying to use a document as a template. Create a template instead (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...platePart1.htm) and the problem won't arise. -- 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. "seb" wrote in message ... I have a document that is constantly changed because its used as a base document. Now every time its opened it shows the mark ups people have done, I have done some research and have done whats suggested such as; going into the security section and unticking (and ticking) to show mark-ups when opening box, I have also seen something mentioned to accept changes, that box isnt available to press as well as the track changes (which isnt on). I want to just open the document normally without all the changes, without having to tick show Final. Let me know if you have any suggestions Thanks |
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