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Mark a revision help
Greetings,
I have a Word 2003 document, lets call it Big Rev 0. When I make a change I will call it Big Rev 1. That part is simple. The document has many pages. What I would like to do is simply place a R1 to the left of the paragraph that I have changed so the recipients can see what I have changed without changing the paragraph formatting. The track changes is way too sophisticated for this use. I am looking for something that people can see on a printed version. Sort of like the old days when you put the revision number in a triangle next to the changed paragraph. Any ideas or help is appreciated! Thanks in advance! Ray |
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Why is track changes too sophisticated? It can place a "change bar" next to
parts of the document that have been changed. It doesn't put R1, but track changes does include your initials and the date/time of the edits. You could change your initials each time you edit (rather than RB, you could be R1, R2, R3, etc. as you make successive editing passes). Alternatively, you can insert comments, then instruct your recipients to display those comments as balloons (if desired). The comments could contain the revision numbers. If you're not going to use a built-in method, then you'll have to track changed paragraphs manually. You can, for example, use Word's drawing tools to do precise what you suggest -- draw a triangle next to the changed paragraph, and turn it into a [triangle-shaped] text box into which you inscribe the revision number. This seems like a lot of work to me, however, especially since there are tools built into Word for dealing with document changes. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Ray Batig" wrote in message ... Greetings, I have a Word 2003 document, lets call it Big Rev 0. When I make a change I will call it Big Rev 1. That part is simple. The document has many pages. What I would like to do is simply place a R1 to the left of the paragraph that I have changed so the recipients can see what I have changed without changing the paragraph formatting. The track changes is way too sophisticated for this use. I am looking for something that people can see on a printed version. Sort of like the old days when you put the revision number in a triangle next to the changed paragraph. Any ideas or help is appreciated! Thanks in advance! Ray |
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