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Editing Tool disaster
In 1996 I used Microsof Office to write a book and relied heavily on the
editing tool within MS Word. It worked great. Last week after finishing the draft of my Ph. D. dissertation, I sent it to someone to edit it. I am using Word 2002 and think the editor was as well. The program was a disaster. First, the editing tool doesn't jump from one correction to the next, requiring more work. Second, although the document had been protected, I unprotected it so that I could enter my own edits. Instead it treated each of my new changes as if they were revisions within the editing progam for a protected doucment. In other words, every change I made, appeared in a different color and underlined or with a strike through it. I have no idea why. In the end, I didn't have the time to use the edits at all. It would have been vastly more efficient to just use a pen and paper. Finally, I sent it out to be printed. The "print what" always default to "document showing markup," which means the document prints at about 2/3 its normal size. If you write a single comment, it does this, which is maddening, never have I wanted it to so print. Knowing it had this horrible feature, I specifically saved as "Final," and sent it to the printer. The program overrode my command and it defaulted back to "document showing markup" and so the print run was unusable. I am really upset by this. Moreover, there is no manual included with the program, and the on-disk help is pretty much useless. The program worked better 10 years ago than it does today. Is there any way to edit a document that will not lead to these frustrations? |
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Calm down and stop screaming. If you took a few minutes to read Help on the
Track Changes features you would have solved all of this in a few minutes. If your changes are appearing in a different color and underlined, you have 'Track Changes' switched on. You're free to switch it off. You're also free to accept the changes, in which case the Final/Showing mark-up issue disappears. Etc. "Robert McN" wrote in message ... In 1996 I used Microsof Office to write a book and relied heavily on the editing tool within MS Word. It worked great. Last week after finishing the draft of my Ph. D. dissertation, I sent it to someone to edit it. I am using Word 2002 and think the editor was as well. The program was a disaster. First, the editing tool doesn't jump from one correction to the next, requiring more work. Second, although the document had been protected, I unprotected it so that I could enter my own edits. Instead it treated each of my new changes as if they were revisions within the editing progam for a protected doucment. In other words, every change I made, appeared in a different color and underlined or with a strike through it. I have no idea why. In the end, I didn't have the time to use the edits at all. It would have been vastly more efficient to just use a pen and paper. Finally, I sent it out to be printed. The "print what" always default to "document showing markup," which means the document prints at about 2/3 its normal size. If you write a single comment, it does this, which is maddening, never have I wanted it to so print. Knowing it had this horrible feature, I specifically saved as "Final," and sent it to the printer. The program overrode my command and it defaulted back to "document showing markup" and so the run was unusable. I am really upset by this. Moreover, there is no manual included with the program, and the on-disk help is pretty much useless. The program worked better 10 years ago than it does today. Is there any way to edit a document that will not lead to these frustrations? |
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You might also want to read
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html -- 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. "Jezebel" wrote in message ... Calm down and stop screaming. If you took a few minutes to read Help on the Track Changes features you would have solved all of this in a few minutes. If your changes are appearing in a different color and underlined, you have 'Track Changes' switched on. You're free to switch it off. You're also free to accept the changes, in which case the Final/Showing mark-up issue disappears. Etc. "Robert McN" wrote in message ... In 1996 I used Microsof Office to write a book and relied heavily on the editing tool within MS Word. It worked great. Last week after finishing the draft of my Ph. D. dissertation, I sent it to someone to edit it. I am using Word 2002 and think the editor was as well. The program was a disaster. First, the editing tool doesn't jump from one correction to the next, requiring more work. Second, although the document had been protected, I unprotected it so that I could enter my own edits. Instead it treated each of my new changes as if they were revisions within the editing progam for a protected doucment. In other words, every change I made, appeared in a different color and underlined or with a strike through it. I have no idea why. In the end, I didn't have the time to use the edits at all. It would have been vastly more efficient to just use a pen and paper. Finally, I sent it out to be printed. The "print what" always default to "document showing markup," which means the document prints at about 2/3 its normal size. If you write a single comment, it does this, which is maddening, never have I wanted it to so print. Knowing it had this horrible feature, I specifically saved as "Final," and sent it to the printer. The program overrode my command and it defaulted back to "document showing markup" and so the run was unusable. I am really upset by this. Moreover, there is no manual included with the program, and the on-disk help is pretty much useless. The program worked better 10 years ago than it does today. Is there any way to edit a document that will not lead to these frustrations? |
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Dear Jezebel,
I'm sorry if it sounded as if I were screaming. I'm calm now and grateful that you responded. I figured out what you were referring to, regarding the switching on/off of the track changes. I think this is a change from the earlier version. I don't see why you can "protect documents" for editing without a password or "track changes" since both seem to do the same thing. In any case, I see the point. However, the second point, which was just as frustrating is that when printing, the program defaults to the "Pring document showing markup." On several occasions this has led to needless wasted paper, ink and time. I specifically saved it in "final" so that this wouldn't happen, and still it defaulted to this format. Does that mean we simply have always remind the copy centers if they receive a Word document to check that the print status is "final?" Or is there some way to ensure that a document will default to the "final" as I imagine most people would prefer? Whether you have any response or not, thanks. Bob "Jezebel" wrote: Calm down and stop screaming. If you took a few minutes to read Help on the Track Changes features you would have solved all of this in a few minutes. If your changes are appearing in a different color and underlined, you have 'Track Changes' switched on. You're free to switch it off. You're also free to accept the changes, in which case the Final/Showing mark-up issue disappears. Etc. "Robert McN" wrote in message ... In 1996 I used Microsof Office to write a book and relied heavily on the editing tool within MS Word. It worked great. Last week after finishing the draft of my Ph. D. dissertation, I sent it to someone to edit it. I am using Word 2002 and think the editor was as well. The program was a disaster. First, the editing tool doesn't jump from one correction to the next, requiring more work. Second, although the document had been protected, I unprotected it so that I could enter my own edits. Instead it treated each of my new changes as if they were revisions within the editing progam for a protected doucment. In other words, every change I made, appeared in a different color and underlined or with a strike through it. I have no idea why. In the end, I didn't have the time to use the edits at all. It would have been vastly more efficient to just use a pen and paper. Finally, I sent it out to be printed. The "print what" always default to "document showing markup," which means the document prints at about 2/3 its normal size. If you write a single comment, it does this, which is maddening, never have I wanted it to so print. Knowing it had this horrible feature, I specifically saved as "Final," and sent it to the printer. The program overrode my command and it defaulted back to "document showing markup" and so the run was unusable. I am really upset by this. Moreover, there is no manual included with the program, and the on-disk help is pretty much useless. The program worked better 10 years ago than it does today. Is there any way to edit a document that will not lead to these frustrations? |
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Thank you for pointing this out to me. Shauna Kelly's site is very helpful.
Best regards. Bob "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might also want to read http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html -- 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. "Jezebel" wrote in message ... Calm down and stop screaming. If you took a few minutes to read Help on the Track Changes features you would have solved all of this in a few minutes. If your changes are appearing in a different color and underlined, you have 'Track Changes' switched on. You're free to switch it off. You're also free to accept the changes, in which case the Final/Showing mark-up issue disappears. Etc. "Robert McN" wrote in message ... In 1996 I used Microsof Office to write a book and relied heavily on the editing tool within MS Word. It worked great. Last week after finishing the draft of my Ph. D. dissertation, I sent it to someone to edit it. I am using Word 2002 and think the editor was as well. The program was a disaster. First, the editing tool doesn't jump from one correction to the next, requiring more work. Second, although the document had been protected, I unprotected it so that I could enter my own edits. Instead it treated each of my new changes as if they were revisions within the editing progam for a protected doucment. In other words, every change I made, appeared in a different color and underlined or with a strike through it. I have no idea why. In the end, I didn't have the time to use the edits at all. It would have been vastly more efficient to just use a pen and paper. Finally, I sent it out to be printed. The "print what" always default to "document showing markup," which means the document prints at about 2/3 its normal size. If you write a single comment, it does this, which is maddening, never have I wanted it to so print. Knowing it had this horrible feature, I specifically saved as "Final," and sent it to the printer. The program overrode my command and it defaulted back to "document showing markup" and so the run was unusable. I am really upset by this. Moreover, there is no manual included with the program, and the on-disk help is pretty much useless. The program worked better 10 years ago than it does today. Is there any way to edit a document that will not lead to these frustrations? |
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The point of protecting the document is to prevent changes completely. The
idea of doing so with no password is that prevents inadvertent changes: the user has to make a conscious decision, yes I want to make a change. Word doesn't normally default to 'print showing mark-up'. If you don't use the track changes feature at all, this simply isn't an issue. "Robert McN" wrote in message ... Dear Jezebel, I'm sorry if it sounded as if I were screaming. I'm calm now and grateful that you responded. I figured out what you were referring to, regarding the switching on/off of the track changes. I think this is a change from the earlier version. I don't see why you can "protect documents" for editing without a password or "track changes" since both seem to do the same thing. In any case, I see the point. However, the second point, which was just as frustrating is that when printing, the program defaults to the "Pring document showing markup." On several occasions this has led to needless wasted paper, ink and time. I specifically saved it in "final" so that this wouldn't happen, and still it defaulted to this format. Does that mean we simply have always remind the copy centers if they receive a Word document to check that the print status is "final?" Or is there some way to ensure that a document will default to the "final" as I imagine most people would prefer? Whether you have any response or not, thanks. Bob "Jezebel" wrote: Calm down and stop screaming. If you took a few minutes to read Help on the Track Changes features you would have solved all of this in a few minutes. If your changes are appearing in a different color and underlined, you have 'Track Changes' switched on. You're free to switch it off. You're also free to accept the changes, in which case the Final/Showing mark-up issue disappears. Etc. "Robert McN" wrote in message ... In 1996 I used Microsof Office to write a book and relied heavily on the editing tool within MS Word. It worked great. Last week after finishing the draft of my Ph. D. dissertation, I sent it to someone to edit it. I am using Word 2002 and think the editor was as well. The program was a disaster. First, the editing tool doesn't jump from one correction to the next, requiring more work. Second, although the document had been protected, I unprotected it so that I could enter my own edits. Instead it treated each of my new changes as if they were revisions within the editing progam for a protected doucment. In other words, every change I made, appeared in a different color and underlined or with a strike through it. I have no idea why. In the end, I didn't have the time to use the edits at all. It would have been vastly more efficient to just use a pen and paper. Finally, I sent it out to be printed. The "print what" always default to "document showing markup," which means the document prints at about 2/3 its normal size. If you write a single comment, it does this, which is maddening, never have I wanted it to so print. Knowing it had this horrible feature, I specifically saved as "Final," and sent it to the printer. The program overrode my command and it defaulted back to "document showing markup" and so the run was unusable. I am really upset by this. Moreover, there is no manual included with the program, and the on-disk help is pretty much useless. The program worked better 10 years ago than it does today. Is there any way to edit a document that will not lead to these frustrations? |
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