Display Track Changes Date/Time stamp in Reviewing Pane

[David Newmarch]

I quite often want to find which parts of a document I was editing on a
particular day or at a particular time. This information shows up in the
tooltips when you hover over the change, but that isn't much help when you
want to scan quickly through a whole lot of changes in a document you may
have kept returning to over an extended period.

A logical place to display this time stamp info would be to add it as a
feature (perhaps an optional feature) in the Reviewing Pane. As far as I can
see this is not presently possible.

Better still would be to have a way to search the reviewing pane to find
changes by date or time, but even the simple addition of the time stamp data
to the existing reviewing pane so that you can quickly run your eye down it
would considerably boost its utility.

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[David Newmarch]

Hi Cindy,

Thanks for your reply - which is very interesting, but also baffling.

I'm using Word 2007, and in my reviewing pane the "title bar" for each entry
simply has, on the left, Inserted, or Deleted, or Comment (plus Comment
Number), etc., and on the right the author/reviewer name. Nothing else.

What you describe is exactly what I want. But I've looked everywhere I can
think of - on the Ribbon and in Word Options - and I can't find any way to
change settings to get what you describe.

So it turns out to be a mystery rather than a suggestion for Microsoft. Not
sure if your reply was reassuring or the opposite, but I do appreciate it!

David

 

[David Newmarch]

Hi Cindy

I posted a reply yesterday that seems not to have gone through, so this is
to thank you once more for your trouble, and to say that the Date/Time stamp
is missing from the reviewing pane whether I'm working on an older pre-Word
2007 document, or a newly created .docx document.

Office Diagnostics simply reports that my Office 2007 installation needs to
be updated, but on the other hand Windows Update (my OS is Vista Business)
disagrees and tells me that I already have all necessary updates for all
programs including Office. So I do at least know that either Office
Diagnostics or Windows Update is faulty. Maybe I will eventually try
reinstalling Office 2007 and then updating it all over again, but another
solution will be to simply adjust my priorities and get on with other things!

David

 

[anna1963]

Date/Time Tracked Changes

I was having a problem with the time and date not displaying with Tracked Changes when " Final Showing Markup" was selected in the Review tab in Word 2007, and I finally figured out that if you use the vertical reviewing pane, only the type of edit and user name appear. If you use the horizontal reviewing pane, the time and date also appear. Also, in the Word Options Trust Center window, in the "Trust Center Settings" window, in the "Privacy Options" window, there is a selection under "Document-specific settings" that says "Remove personal information from file properties on save." It is selected by default in my program. If it is selected, my editing information appears to be correct. I can save and re-open and the reviewing pane still displays "anna". If I open it on my co-worker's computer, it no longer says "anna" but says "Author". I saved it and re-opened it on mine and it remains "Author". So I finally figured out why the customer was telling me to save it with my name in the comments and not use the generic "Author" and I thought that I WAS saving it with my name...what a convoluted place to hide that, and I don't know if it's selected by default or just in the stuff I have but that's a pain too. It's obvious in the Document Inspector as it's right in front of you when you run it, but to have it strip the info automatically and bury the option in the TRUST CENTER? Arghh!