Use Tracking Changes to create a Change Log

[Sagz]

Hi,
I want to review and edit a document a large document (> 20 Megs without
graphics). Instead of sending the whole document back and forth on mail, I'd
like to know if there is a way to generate a Change Log automatically or
programmatically. Tracking Changes can track the changes that are made in a
document. Can a document be automatically created that contains these changes
(only the changes), as in a change log?

Your help would be most appreciated. Thanks and regards.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

In your Print dialog (Ctril-P), under "Print what?" there should be a
line "List of markup." That should do it.

 

[Sagz]

Hi,
Thanks for the tip. However, this will 'print' the markup list. One would
have to print it to PDF and then put the text back into Excel (if using Excel
for maintaining Change Log). Could there be a way to 'save markup list as new
document' ?

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

What happens if you check the "Print to file" box at the upper right?

 

[Sagz]

Well if you print to file, it will create a prn file for the selected
printer. Still won't generate a text, csv or xls or even doc file of the
change log. I feel the solution may lie in VBA.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Well, that's not too helpful! Not long ago I needed a list of my
custom keyboard commands, and you get that from the last entry on the
same dropdown that has "List of markup." What I ended up doing was
printing to a pdf, and then selecting the text in Acrobat and pasting
it into a Word file. It was pretty messy -- IIRC it came out as a one-
column table in a string of frames or text boxes, one per page -- but
somehow I was able to get the text out of it and format it in a useful
way. (The same thing didn't work even that well when I made the pdf
using the freeware pdf995.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Another alternative is to use Print to File to print to a Generic/Text Only
printer, but the results from this are pretty messy as well.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

Well, that's not too helpful! Not long ago I needed a list of my
custom keyboard commands, and you get that from the last entry on the
same dropdown that has "List of markup." What I ended up doing was
printing to a pdf, and then selecting the text in Acrobat and pasting
it into a Word file. It was pretty messy -- IIRC it came out as a one-
column table in a string of frames or text boxes, one per page -- but
somehow I was able to get the text out of it and format it in a useful
way. (The same thing didn't work even that well when I made the pdf
using the freeware pdf995.)

 

[Lene Fredborg]

You could use the macro found at the address below to extract the tracked
changes to a new document:
http://www.thedoctools.com/index.php?show=mt_trackchanges_extract

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg - Microsoft MVP (Word)
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word