Doc opens with "Final Showing Markup"

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In Word 2003, numerous documents may open with "final showing markup" even
tho all changes have been accepted and track changes has been turned off.

Is this a recurring nuisance or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.
 
Are you only seeing "Final Showing Markup" on the Reviewing toolbar or
is there still markup in your document?

If the issue lies only in the Reviewing toolbar displaying then
chances are you are encountering an annoyance that stems from sending
a document as an email attachment from Word.

For more on this issue and a workaround take a look at this article:

"Review toolbar annoyance"
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=221

Note you may want to use the following macro rather than the one
provided in the article:

'***Macro Start
Sub AutoOpen()
With CommandBars("Reviewing")
.Visible = False
End With
End Sub
'***Macro End

This macro will still allow you to turn on the Reviewing toolbar when
you want. The macro in the article will disable the toolbar when Word
starts. (At the time the article was written everyone wanted to 'kill
off' the toolbar and never wanted to see it again! lol):

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Thanks for the reply,
there is still markup in the document. Also, this occurs with documents
(not all) that I have already saved (not just rec'd in email), resaved the
changes, switched to Final, turned off the toolbar, closed word, etc., etc.,
etc.

I will check the article you referenced, but am under a little gun right now
- so will need a day or two for that. So I too, may want to kill the
toolbar!!.
Will f/u once I work on the macro.
Thanks again.
Rita
 
As long as there is markup in the document, you will (by default) see the
Reviewing toolbar and will be in Final Showing Markup view. You can change
this behavior by changing a setting in Word ("Make hidden markup visible
when opening or saving"), but there's a good reason it's on the Security tab
of Tools | Options: it's for your protection, to save you the embarrassment
(or even legal liability) of sending a document containing tracked changes
or comments.

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

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all may benefit.
 
Thanks Suzanne,

I think perhaps we were not always "saving all changes" and therefore they
would keep showing up.
By the way, as a test, I deselected the security feature and it still opened
with changes showing. However, I won't leave it that way, so it's not
necessary for you to respond. No time now to really experiment.

Thanks. Rita



:

.....Security tab
 
Even though you noted no response is necessary, more than likely the
reason you're still seeing markup upon opening the document after
turning the option off is due to saving the document in the "Final
showing markup" view. If you switch it to "Final" then it will reopen
in the Final view.

Note a modification needs to be made to the file in order for the
current view to be saved.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
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