Thanks Suzanne/Margaret..
I didn't mean to offend any one by asking why it is a
defaulted value (you both explained the reason very
precisely). I have heard about those embarassing events
but since the personal information recorded by Word wasn't
defaulted to off, I had no idea that was the reason for
this defaulted value.

"Remove personal or hidden information
Show All
Hide All
Before you give others a copy of the document, it's a good
idea to review personal and hidden information, and decide
whether it's appropriate to include. You may want to
remove some information from the document and from the
document file properties before you share the document
with others."

I learned something new each day (none of this was in my
certification training). Thanks for sharing.




-----Original Message-----
We have Franchises opening up some of our documents
complaining that the documents are filled with mark-ups.
These are not forwarded for collaboration or saved with
track changes enabled in any way.

We isolated the problem to the
ToolsOptionsSecurityMake
Hidden Markup Visible when opening or saving check box
being enabled. Our question is: Is this value turned on
by
default? And if it is, anyone know why? We thought about
writing macros into the template to turn the value off.
But then in order to run the macro, the user would have
to
change the default Macro Setting from High to Med to get
the prompt to enable macros. Which most Franchises buy
Office in a retail outlet, bring back and install it out
of the box selecting all normal installation options.

Just curious if this setting is by default or are a lot
of
our franchises selecting it without knowing what it does.

Thanks

Jack
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