You need click on the "Accept All Tracked Changes" and "Delete
All Comments" commands on the Reviewing toolbar. I suspect that
you only changed to Final view on the Reviewing toolbar, which
hides the tracked changes, but does not remove them. See
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...983881033.aspx
and
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html
for more information.

Beth wrote:

I am using 2003 and have tracked changes to my document.
I have accepted all deletions, unchecked the 'Make hidden markup visible
when opening or saving' (Tools Options Security), marked it as final and
even made it read-only.
I email the doc which comes across with all these settings however the
recipient is still able to review it as the original, original with markup,
and final with markup.

I have even tried copying the contents and pasting into a new document and
the changes are still visible.

Can anyone help me with this - I have a very important document to send to
one of our customers and I do not want them to see the changes!!

Thank you in advance from some one who has less hair than when she started
work this morning!