Changes are being marked on linked excel file

[Guest]

I have a PowerPoint presentation with several linked files. One of the links
in the powerpoint presentation appears to show tracked changes when the
linked file is updated (it shows a blue line on the left similar to tracked
changes in Word 2000). I can't get the blue line to go away - any ideas?
View-Markup does not appear to be an option as it is greyed out on my menu.

Thanks in advance for your help!
M.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a PowerPoint presentation with several linked files. One of the links
in the powerpoint presentation appears to show tracked changes when the
linked file is updated (it shows a blue line on the left similar to tracked
changes in Word 2000). I can't get the blue line to go away - any ideas?
View-Markup does not appear to be an option as it is greyed out on my menu.

PowerPoint itself doesn't track changes like this, so I'll guess that the linked
file itself contains and is displaying the tracking bars.

What type of files are these?

You'll probably need to doubleclick them to activate them in the source
application and turn off tracking there. You won't be able to do it using PPT's
tools because PPT isn't doing the tracking.

 

[Guest]

They are linked excel files. I had gone in to try to turn off any tracked
changes, but the workbook was not set to share.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

They are linked excel files. I had gone in to try to turn off any tracked
changes, but the workbook was not set to share.

I've never worked with shared workbooks so I'm not very familiar with the feature.
I wonder if the "owner" of the workbook has to turn off tracked changes, rather than
any user (of course, if you're the owner/originator of the workbook, this wouldn't
apply).