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Track changes: opening a document in 'Final' view
Whenever I open documents from our network at work, the document opens
with track changes turned on. I've gone into the Tools/Options/Security tab and deselected the box, "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving," and my documents still open up with track changes turned on. Why is this, and is there a way to actually get my documents to open up in Final mode? Thanks. Frank |
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Track changes: opening a document in 'Final' view
Once change tracking is on the doc will *always* open with the markup
showing, purportedly so the opening user knows the feature is active. According to Word Help, the settings you made are applied in this way: Note If you hide a type of markup by clearing it on the Show menu, the markup automatically appears each time the document is opened unless you clear the Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving check box on the Security tab of the Options dialog box (Tools menu). Even if you clear this check box, the markup is still in the document and can be revealed by selecting the type of markup on the Show menu. But I have not found that it seems to change anything as far as displaying markup on opening the file. Regards |:) "Phrank" wrote: Whenever I open documents from our network at work, the document opens with track changes turned on. I've gone into the Tools/Options/Security tab and deselected the box, "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving," and my documents still open up with track changes turned on. Why is this, and is there a way to actually get my documents to open up in Final mode? Thanks. Frank |
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Track changes: opening a document in 'Final' view
Thanks. I agree, I've found the same thing. It's the 'nuclear
decision' if you ask me. Just because a few let their documents go through with their (embarassing?) changes, now we all have to deal with the results. I've now been trying to figure out how to apply a macro to each document that opens. It's easy to write a macro that will change the ducument to 'Final' view, but I'm now looking at how to apply that macro to every document I open. That's the only work around that I see right now. Thanks for replying though. Frank On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:26:02 -0800, CyberTaz wrote: Once change tracking is on the doc will *always* open with the markup showing, purportedly so the opening user knows the feature is active. According to Word Help, the settings you made are applied in this way: Note If you hide a type of markup by clearing it on the Show menu, the markup automatically appears each time the document is opened unless you clear the Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving check box on the Security tab of the Options dialog box (Tools menu). Even if you clear this check box, the markup is still in the document and can be revealed by selecting the type of markup on the Show menu. But I have not found that it seems to change anything as far as displaying markup on opening the file. Regards |:) "Phrank" wrote: Whenever I open documents from our network at work, the document opens with track changes turned on. I've gone into the Tools/Options/Security tab and deselected the box, "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving," and my documents still open up with track changes turned on. Why is this, and is there a way to actually get my documents to open up in Final mode? Thanks. Frank |
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Track changes: opening a document in 'Final' view
If you make this an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot, it should affect all
documents. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Phrank" wrote in message ... Thanks. I agree, I've found the same thing. It's the 'nuclear decision' if you ask me. Just because a few let their documents go through with their (embarassing?) changes, now we all have to deal with the results. I've now been trying to figure out how to apply a macro to each document that opens. It's easy to write a macro that will change the ducument to 'Final' view, but I'm now looking at how to apply that macro to every document I open. That's the only work around that I see right now. Thanks for replying though. Frank On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:26:02 -0800, CyberTaz wrote: Once change tracking is on the doc will *always* open with the markup showing, purportedly so the opening user knows the feature is active. According to Word Help, the settings you made are applied in this way: Note If you hide a type of markup by clearing it on the Show menu, the markup automatically appears each time the document is opened unless you clear the Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving check box on the Security tab of the Options dialog box (Tools menu). Even if you clear this check box, the markup is still in the document and can be revealed by selecting the type of markup on the Show menu. But I have not found that it seems to change anything as far as displaying markup on opening the file. Regards |:) "Phrank" wrote: Whenever I open documents from our network at work, the document opens with track changes turned on. I've gone into the Tools/Options/Security tab and deselected the box, "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving," and my documents still open up with track changes turned on. Why is this, and is there a way to actually get my documents to open up in Final mode? Thanks. Frank |
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Track changes: opening a document in 'Final' view
I'm going to try that today. Thanks!
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:30:56 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you make this an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot, it should affect all documents. |
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Track changes: opening a document in 'Final' view
I did this, and it works great! Thanks! I'm now trying to figure out
an easier way to pass this on to others (not many others I work with are comfortable going in to the VBA code). I've tried creating a template that contains my AutoOpen macro and saving it in the Word\Startup folder. I was told it would then be treated as an add-in that will run automatically when all documents are opened. However, it doesn't seem to work for me that way, only with the Normal.dot method you suggested. Why would that be so? Thanks for your help. Frank On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:30:56 -0600, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you make this an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot, it should affect all documents. |
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