[Ed]

Is there a way to make the review pane disappear and never, ever come back?

I'm changing a number of multi-hundred page documents with track changes on.
When I try to step through the document looking at changes (by smacking the
little "next" change button), Word regularly opens the thrice-cursed review
pane and moves focus there.

At that point, smacking the next button again moves through the review pane
instead of moving through the document. The document view does change as
Word moves through the review pane, but the document window frequently only
gets near the change without actually showing it. Quite useless from my
point of view.

I'm prefectly happy to write a macro that changes the function of the next
button to:

1) next
2) close review pane

but that seems a bit brute force.

Alternatives? Thanks!

Ed

[CyberTaz]

Doesn't sound right, Ed. Take a look at the last button on the left end of
the Reviewing toolbar. If that isn't pressed in the Reviewing Pane shouldn't
be open. (There is also a menu item in the "Show" menu of the same toolbar.)
Just clicking the Next changge button shouldn't cause the pain [sic] to
appear.
--
HTH |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Ed" wrote in message
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Is there a way to make the review pane disappear and never, ever come
back?

I'm changing a number of multi-hundred page documents with track changes
on.
When I try to step through the document looking at changes (by smacking
the
little "next" change button), Word regularly opens the thrice-cursed
review
pane and moves focus there.

At that point, smacking the next button again moves through the review
pane
instead of moving through the document. The document view does change as
Word moves through the review pane, but the document window frequently
only
gets near the change without actually showing it. Quite useless from my
point of view.

I'm prefectly happy to write a macro that changes the function of the next
button to:

1) next
2) close review pane

but that seems a bit brute force.

Alternatives? Thanks!

Ed

[Ed]

Doesn't sound right, Ed. Take a look at the last button on the left end of
the Reviewing toolbar. If that isn't pressed in the Reviewing Pane shouldn't
be open.

But, sigh, it does open. One case that reliably opens the Review Pain (I
like that, btw) is when the next change is a deletion. I smack "next", the
Pain opens, and the little Review Pain button lights up.

I understand how it probably seemed appealing for the designers to open the
Pain to show the deletion, but the after-effect - in my situation - is
thoroughly undesirable. If nothing else, I've got a good use case for the
designers of Word 2011 or whatever is next, but that's a fair spell to wait
and a lot of Pain in the interim.

Ahhhhh - if I set the option for Deletions to Strikethrough instead of
Hidden, then the Review Pain behaves, but the document looks nothing like the
final product. Blarg.

In the meantime, I've moved the Review Pain button to be adjacent to the
"next" button to simplify Pain relief.

Thanks,
Ed

[CyberTaz]

I hadn't gone that far - was waiting to see your response - but you nailed
it. The Pain (glad you liked it :-)) pops up because of the Hidden
deletions. Just in case you weren't aware, you can grab hold of the top edge
of the bugger & drag down to at least reduce its height to only a couple of
lines - it may take a few attempts to get it set 'cause it has a tendency to
close if you try to make it too small. That may be just enough to allow you
to pretend it isn't there

FYI - It *has* changed in 2007... for the worse (IMHO). The behavior is
still the same, but it pops up as a full height panel on the left rather
than at the bottom. Naturally that causes the doc window to be scaled down
accordingly - especially problematic if it's sandwiched in between the
Reviewing Pain & a Task Pain. It's gotten to be as bad as watching TV -
there's so much graphic cr*p on the screen you can't see the show!
--
Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Ed" wrote in message
...
Doesn't sound right, Ed. Take a look at the last button on the left end
of
the Reviewing toolbar. If that isn't pressed in the Reviewing Pane
shouldn't
be open.

But, sigh, it does open. One case that reliably opens the Review Pain (I
like that, btw) is when the next change is a deletion. I smack "next",
the
Pain opens, and the little Review Pain button lights up.

I understand how it probably seemed appealing for the designers to open
the
Pain to show the deletion, but the after-effect - in my situation - is
thoroughly undesirable. If nothing else, I've got a good use case for the
designers of Word 2011 or whatever is next, but that's a fair spell to
wait
and a lot of Pain in the interim.

Ahhhhh - if I set the option for Deletions to Strikethrough instead of
Hidden, then the Review Pain behaves, but the document looks nothing like
the
final product. Blarg.

In the meantime, I've moved the Review Pain button to be adjacent to the
"next" button to simplify Pain relief.

Thanks,
Ed

[CyberTaz]

Actually I was a a little hasty, I'm still fumbling with the 2007 GUI before
I break down and 'read the book' - so just to put things right:

In 2007 you *do* have the option of displaying the Pain vertically *or*
horizontally, but I still haven't found a way to dispose of it altogether...
I guess the logic is that if you're reviewing changes there has to be *some
way* of showing them to you

2007 has also made the Task Pains less of an imposition - at least they
don't automatically pop up almost every time you execute a command. Instead,
they're available 'on demand' if what you need isn't readily available from
the Ribbon.

Regards |:)
Bob Jones MVP [Mac Offfice]

"CyberTaz" wrote:

I hadn't gone that far - was waiting to see your response - but you nailed
it. The Pain (glad you liked it :-)) pops up because of the Hidden
deletions. Just in case you weren't aware, you can grab hold of the top edge
of the bugger & drag down to at least reduce its height to only a couple of
lines - it may take a few attempts to get it set 'cause it has a tendency to
close if you try to make it too small. That may be just enough to allow you
to pretend it isn't there

FYI - It *has* changed in 2007... for the worse (IMHO). The behavior is
still the same, but it pops up as a full height panel on the left rather
than at the bottom. Naturally that causes the doc window to be scaled down
accordingly - especially problematic if it's sandwiched in between the
Reviewing Pain & a Task Pain. It's gotten to be as bad as watching TV -
there's so much graphic cr*p on the screen you can't see the show!
--
Regards |:)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

"Ed" wrote in message
...
Doesn't sound right, Ed. Take a look at the last button on the left end
of
the Reviewing toolbar. If that isn't pressed in the Reviewing Pane
shouldn't
be open.

But, sigh, it does open. One case that reliably opens the Review Pain (I
like that, btw) is when the next change is a deletion. I smack "next",
the
Pain opens, and the little Review Pain button lights up.

I understand how it probably seemed appealing for the designers to open
the
Pain to show the deletion, but the after-effect - in my situation - is
thoroughly undesirable. If nothing else, I've got a good use case for the
designers of Word 2011 or whatever is next, but that's a fair spell to
wait
and a lot of Pain in the interim.

Ahhhhh - if I set the option for Deletions to Strikethrough instead of
Hidden, then the Review Pain behaves, but the document looks nothing like
the
final product. Blarg.

In the meantime, I've moved the Review Pain button to be adjacent to the
"next" button to simplify Pain relief.

Thanks,
Ed