Track changes?

Subject: Track changes?
From: Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:31:34 -0500


David Downing wondered: <<How do I turn the Track Changes feature in Word totally OFF and make it STAY totally OFF????>>

At the bottom of the document window, in the status line, you'll see a little button labeled "TRK". Click this to enable track changes, or to disable the feature if it's currently enabled. Alternatively, disable the feature via the menus (Tools-->Track Changes-->Highlight changes-->Track changes while editing).

You can't make this change permanent, but so long as you don't re-enable the feature, it should stay off forevermore. If you've been hitting the Control-Shift-E keyboard shortcut by mistake (e.g., instead of Control-E to center text), that toggles between tracking and not tracking changes. Stop doing that! <g>

If someone has sent you a document that has been "protected for revision tracking" (Tools-->Protect document-->Protect document for tracked changes), you'll have to ask them to disable the track changes feature if the document is password protected*. If not, simply disable this selection yourself.

* I believe that with some earlier versions of Word, you could simply do a "save as" and that would eliminate the password. Worth a try?

--Geoff Hart ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
www.geoff-hart.com


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