I do a lot of professional editing, using Track Changes. I've recently
changed to Office 2003, and find that the new Word doesn't let me produce a
final version with all changes accepted. Every time I re-open the file, it
gives me 'Final showing markup' instead of 'Final'. This is extremely
inconvenient and causes serious problems when I return the edited file, which
risks being ublished with all markups visible. How do I stop this?

Did you also delete all comments in the file?

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"MikeT" wrote in message
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I do a lot of professional editing, using Track Changes. I've
recently
changed to Office 2003, and find that the new Word doesn't let me
produce a
final version with all changes accepted. Every time I re-open the
file, it
gives me 'Final showing markup' instead of 'Final'. This is
extremely
inconvenient and causes serious problems when I return the edited
file, which
risks being ublished with all markups visible. How do I stop this?

If you are seeing the revision markups, then you haven't accepted the
changes. Changing the view simply hides them temporarily on your machine. To
remove the revisions you must use the "Accept All Changes in Document"
option on the dropdown menu beside the Accept button on the Reviewing
toolbar.

As I understand it, Word 2003 changed the default view to show markup in an
attempt to alert users to their hidden tracked changes. In practice, from
the postings we see here, it usually seems to mean that instead of a 50-50
chance of your recipients seeing your unaccepted changes it is now a
certainty.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org

"MikeT" wrote in message
...
I do a lot of professional editing, using Track Changes. I've recently
changed to Office 2003, and find that the new Word doesn't let me produce
a
final version with all changes accepted. Every time I re-open the file, it
gives me 'Final showing markup' instead of 'Final'. This is extremely
inconvenient and causes serious problems when I return the edited file,
which
risks being ublished with all markups visible. How do I stop this?

Thank you very much. Obvious and simple once you pointed it out, but I hadn't
realised there was an Accept button. All solved.
M

"Margaret Aldis" wrote:

If you are seeing the revision markups, then you haven't accepted the
changes. Changing the view simply hides them temporarily on your machine. To
remove the revisions you must use the "Accept All Changes in Document"
option on the dropdown menu beside the Accept button on the Reviewing
toolbar.

As I understand it, Word 2003 changed the default view to show markup in an
attempt to alert users to their hidden tracked changes. In practice, from
the postings we see here, it usually seems to mean that instead of a 50-50
chance of your recipients seeing your unaccepted changes it is now a
certainty.

--
Margaret Aldis - Microsoft Word MVP
Syntagma partnership site: http://www.syntagma.co.uk
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.word.mvps.org

"MikeT" wrote in message
...
I do a lot of professional editing, using Track Changes. I've recently
changed to Office 2003, and find that the new Word doesn't let me produce
a
final version with all changes accepted. Every time I re-open the file, it
gives me 'Final showing markup' instead of 'Final'. This is extremely
inconvenient and causes serious problems when I return the edited file,
which
risks being ublished with all markups visible. How do I stop this?