I've got a problem I'm really racking my brains trying to figure out. This
could get a bit convoluted, so please bear with me.

At work, each PC has Word 2003 and Microsoft XP and is connected to a
network. If I create a new, or open an old, document, and make changes,
save, then close the document, then another person opens the same document
under thier own login name, then the document shows all the tracked change
markups, and the review toolbar shows "final showing markup."

I've accepted all changes, changed the toolbar to show "final," saved the
document, then had someone else open it, and the markups are all back!

Where can we find the settings that will default to "final" for all
documents, no matter who opens them or makes changes to them?

Thanks.

Hi ?B?cmhvZGVzbWtAc3diZWxsLm5ldA==?=,

Were these documents created in Word 2003, or an older version?

If you save one of them to XML format, close, re-open, accept the changes (at
this point, it shouldn't matter whether you're looking at "final", "original"
or anything else - they should all be the same!), do they disappear? And stay
gone?

How about doing the same saving to RTF format?

At work, each PC has Word 2003 and Microsoft XP and is connected to a
network. If I create a new, or open an old, document, and make changes,
save, then close the document, then another person opens the same document
under thier own login name, then the document shows all the tracked change
markups, and the review toolbar shows "final showing markup."

I've accepted all changes, changed the toolbar to show "final," saved the
document, then had someone else open it, and the markups are all back!

Where can we find the settings that will default to "final" for all
documents, no matter who opens them or makes changes to them?


Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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