In Word 2002, the Reviewing toolbar has separate buttons (menus) for
Accepting and Rejecting. The Accept one includes "Accept All Changes in
Document."
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"Mark Tangard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Pat,
>
> The important concept here is that you need to get *rid* of the
> tracked changes (by "accepting" or "rejecting" them), not turn
> them off. (Unfortunately for this, Word 2002 makes it *easier*
> to just hide them, so they're out of sight & out of mind, until
> problems like this arise and the dead rise & walk the earth, etc.)
>
> It's very likely that whoever hid them in the first place did so
> because he/she wanted to say "OK" to the changes. What he/she
> should've done is Accept All, so *IF* you're sure that was the
> intention, you should probably do that too, by clicking: Tools->
> Track Changes-> Accept or Reject Changes-> Accept All. [Note:
> These are the Word 2000 commands; may have changed in 2002,
> which I don't use. Someone wanna confirm this?]
>
> BUT: Word 2002 has different "views" for Tracked Changes that
> affect how they're displayed and (maybe) how they can be edited.
> I've found that the vast majority of users don't understand these
> at all, but there's a possibility your doc's originator did, so
> be sure, if you can, that his/her intention was to accept the
> changes rather than just concealing them temporarily.
>
> --
> Mark Tangard <(E-Mail Removed)>, Microsoft Word MVP
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>
>
> Pat Kelecy wrote:
> >
> > Yes - you were right. I selected Tool -> Track Changes and a bunch of
them
> > showed up. How do I turn this off? SelectingTools->Track Changes again
> > doesn't seem to toggle it off, as I would expect. I'm confused on how
this
> > works (seems like it was simpler in earlier versions of Word).
> >
> > Thanks for the help. -Pat
> >
> > "Mark Tangard" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Hi Pat,
> > >
> > > Often this sort of thing happens when the document contains tracked
> > > changes that aren't displayed -- changes that, if they were displayed,
> > > would show that you're trying to do something major, like backspace
> > > over a section break, etc. (I've never figured out what the criterion
> > > is for how major the action must be.) Could that be the case?
Display
> > > revisions (Tools-> Track Changes-> Highlight Changes, etc.) and see.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark Tangard <(E-Mail Removed)>, Microsoft Word MVP
> > > Please reply only to the newsgroup, not by private email.
> > > Note well: MVPs do not work for Microsoft.
> > > "Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Pat Kelecy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've been experiencing some odd editing behavior in Word XP. If I
move
> > the
> > > > cursor , say, to the end of a sentence and press backspace serveral
> > times,
> > > > it will delete the period at the end of the sentence but nothing
more
> > (the
> > > > cursor just sits there even though I'm hitting the backspace key).
> > > > However, this only happens with certain sentences in the document.
> > With
> > > > others it works as it should -deleting the period and characters as
> > > > expected.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any idea what might be going on with this?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the help. -Pat
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