Thank-you Dan and Suzanne for your time and efforts.
You have answered my general question about whether the previously accepted
changes are retained somewhere within a document for viewing and I will be
sure to refer to Shauna's site to learn more.
I am still uncertain as to why the "Microsoft Tracked Hidden Tool" was
created if the document does not retain any of this history...but I will have
to look into what the tool actually does a little bit more than I have.
Thanks so much for your help and have a great day!
Sherri-Lyn Forst
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S.Forst
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Word does *not* keep track of changes after they're accepted.
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"SL Forst" wrote in message
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Hi,
That was what I had thought as well. If that is the case, then why was
Microsoft Tracked Hidden Tool created?
I referred to the site that had been posted as a reply to other questions:
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac....html#Security
This site discusses metadata - how do I access the metadata in a word
document? Even with the existance of this metadata that keeps a history
of
changes that have occured to a document, after the changes have been
accepted
they are permanent?
Thank-you for taking the time to help me to work through this.
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S.Forst
"Dan Freeman" wrote:
You could use a version control system such as Microsoft's VSS to keep
various versions of the document, but once you accept changes you've
done
exactly that: you've accepted the changes as a permanent change to the
document.
Dan
SL Forst wrote:
Hello,
I am wondering if there is a way (or multiple ways) to take a
document that has had multiple changes completed with tracking on and
view the tracked changes over the life of the document after they
have been accepted.
This would include seeing the deletions/additions that have been
accepted at various points over a year or more, etc.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.