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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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"Herb Wexler" Herb wrote in message
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On a final version of the document how do I prevent readers from seeing
editing marks. I frequently have words that are not in a standard
dictionary
or choose to ignore formatting and grammer suggestions. When I send the
document to someone else I dont want these edit marks to be shown.