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Multiple Reviewers, sharing a document?
I have a large Word doc that is to be reviewed by several users. I'd like to
make the document available to all of them at the same time, but I don't know how that will affect their comments as they make them (through track changes) on the document. Can anyone give me a brief overview of how the track changes feature works on a shared document? Thanks!! |
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Multiple Reviewers, sharing a document?
For starters, Word doesn't _do_ shared documents. The first person who opens
a document gets the exclusive right to save changes to it, and anyone else who opens it while the first user still has it will get a read-only copy -- any changes would have to be saved to a different filename. There are basically two strategies for multiple reviewers: (a) Sequential reviewing, where each user reviews the document and then passes it to the next user. Set the Track Changes options to color the insertions and deletions "By Author". (But see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html for cautions.) (b) Parallel (but not shared) reviewing, where each user gets a separate copy of the original document. As the copies are returned to you, use the "merge changes" command to make one combined document. Look at the Help topic "About sending a file for review" (if you have trouble finding it through the Help task pane, it's online at http://office.microsoft.com/assistan...respos=3&rt=2). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Bejewell wrote: I have a large Word doc that is to be reviewed by several users. I'd like to make the document available to all of them at the same time, but I don't know how that will affect their comments as they make them (through track changes) on the document. Can anyone give me a brief overview of how the track changes feature works on a shared document? Thanks!! |
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Multiple Reviewers, sharing a document?
This is EXTREMELY helpful information - thanks so much!
"Jay Freedman" wrote: For starters, Word doesn't _do_ shared documents. The first person who opens a document gets the exclusive right to save changes to it, and anyone else who opens it while the first user still has it will get a read-only copy -- any changes would have to be saved to a different filename. There are basically two strategies for multiple reviewers: (a) Sequential reviewing, where each user reviews the document and then passes it to the next user. Set the Track Changes options to color the insertions and deletions "By Author". (But see http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html for cautions.) (b) Parallel (but not shared) reviewing, where each user gets a separate copy of the original document. As the copies are returned to you, use the "merge changes" command to make one combined document. Look at the Help topic "About sending a file for review" (if you have trouble finding it through the Help task pane, it's online at http://office.microsoft.com/assistan...respos=3&rt=2). -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Bejewell wrote: I have a large Word doc that is to be reviewed by several users. I'd like to make the document available to all of them at the same time, but I don't know how that will affect their comments as they make them (through track changes) on the document. Can anyone give me a brief overview of how the track changes feature works on a shared document? Thanks!! |
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