How do I show deletions when tracking changes

[Guest]

When I turn on "track changes" insertions show up in color but deletions do
not show up at all. That is, I can delete text only by right-clicking on the
deleted text and clicking "accept deletion" in the menu; from the appearance
on the screen, nothing is being deleted at all. I'd like to have the
deletions in balloons on the side but I can't figure out how to do this.

 

[Guest]

Go to TOOLS, OPTIONS, TRACK CHANGES, make sure deletions is set to
Strikethrough. If you don't want deletions to show as balloons, then make
sure on towards the bottom of that screen where it says Use Balloons that you
set it to NEVER.

 

[Tony Jollans]

Tools > Option > Track Changes tab.
Set the display options for Deletions as you want them
And/or set the Balloon display option.

 

[Guest]

I want deletions to show in balloons and not as strikethrough. But tools-
options-track changes doesn't give me a delete option

 

[Tony Jollans]

Word 2002?

Some options got accidentally left off the dialog in Word 2002. They are
available through VBA but not through the UI.

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Enjoy,
Tony

I want deletions to show in balloons and not as strikethrough. But tools-
options-track changes doesn't give me a delete option

this.

 

[Guest]

I want to record deletions in balloons and not with strikethroughs. I haven't
found the deletions options in Tools-Option-Track Changes

 

[Tony Jollans]

The answer is the same as it was an hour ago. If you're using Word 2002 you
can only do this through VBA ...

Options.DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkNone 'if I remember

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The Final Showing Markup view will show deletions in balloons (if you have
balloons enabled) in Print Layout and Web Layout view only. If you have
balloons enabled and are seeing strikethrough, either you're in Normal or
Outline view or you're in Original Showing Markup view (which shows
insertions in balloons). If your Track Changes tab doesn't say anything
about balloons, then you don't have Word 2002 or 2003.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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I want deletions to show in balloons and not as strikethrough. But tools-
options-track changes doesn't give me a delete option

this.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Tony and Suzanne. I think it's to do with the format I received from
someone else. His texts uses strikethroughs. My own documents give me all
changes in balloons as I want.

 

[Guest]

I have pasted his document onto one from my computer and now it is as I want;
I don't know why it didn't work for me before; thanks again