[Lene Fredborg]

If the setting "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving" in Tools
Options Security tab is turned on (which it is by default), any tracked
changes found in a document will be shown when you open the document ("Final
Showing Markup" view).

To change this, each user must turn off that setting. However, if users turn
off the setting, they risk distributing documents with tracked changes
without being aware of it.

From Word's online help:
"Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving": Displays all comments,
annotations, deletions, and other types of revisions. If you use the use the
Show menu on the Reviewing toolbar to hide some or all of your revisions, and
you select this option, your revisions will appear when you or another user
opens the file. This option does not affect text formatted as hidden.

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Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"KateS" wrote:

Hello,

We're using track changes in Word 2003. Is there a way to have the default
view when opening the documents be the Final version instead of Final Showing
Markup?

Thanks!