How do I isolate a single page from a document...

[Guest]

Hello group.

How do I remove a single page from a document (thus making a new doc. from
said page), and still preserve the tracked changes and comments?

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Sorry - It's Word 2002

 

[Graham Mayor]

I don't think it will help much which version of Word it is, as there is no
concept of a page in Word, pages are transient entities determined by a
number of factors not least of which is the printer driver.

You can copy a 'page' to a new document with the following macro, but I
suspect that the results will not be what you envisage.

Sub CopyCurrentPageToNewDoc()
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\page").Range.Select
Selection.Copy
Documents.Add Template:="Normal"
Selection.Paste
End Sub


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[Guest]

Thanks for the reply Graham, but could you elucidate a little for me ?

FYI - I have obviously tried simply cutting / pasting the required section,
but the comments and tracked changes are not retained. I understand what you
mean about Word's concept of a page. However, I have a long document with
many changes and comments - I need to send part of this to s/one, without
sending them the rest. Surely this should be a simple matter?
Thanks again.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Unfortunately it isn't a simple matter. Cut and paste is the only option
along with the attendant problems of that method. The only option that comes
to mind is to use a screen shot of the page, but to do that properly you'll
need a scrolling capture utility such as SnagIt and the 'document' will be
an image and not editable.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's counterintuitive, but I believe you have to turn Track Changes off
before copying. Paste into a new document and turn Track Changes back on.
Does that help?

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

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[Guest]

YES! Thank you - new document contains previous comments etc even before
turning Track Changes back on. (It is counterintuitive, but I'm annoyed that
I didn't think to try this... grrrr)
Thanks Suzanne!

 

[Guest]

04-Mar-2006 / 04:35 Bangkok time

Just came across this interesting answer while browsing thru, looking for
simple solutions, among them, a way to get back to the older Word version
"comment" style. The current style used in Word 2003 is enough to gag a
maggot. I run for the bucket each time I see it. Talk about clutter... (I
know). Any case, to get back to the subject at hand...

Since this is an old (2004) answer, I'm not sure if my related 2006 query
will ever come to the attention of "Suzanne S. Barnhill" - unless these types
of replies go direct to her email in box. Any way, here goes nothing...

Query:

Are you inferring by this that if I 'cut' a page or a complete document
(select all, et. al.) and 'paste' into a new, blank document, the tracked
changes (and, hopefully, 'comments' and maybe a few other things) will
magically disappear - thus saving me the trouble of "cleaning" such out of
the doc manually or via the
Word doc clean macro? (in the newer Word 2003 version, that is).

If so, someone finally may have done something useful - even if by accident.

Just curious. Will check as soon as I finish browsing some more and maybe
posting my query on the 'comments' thing.

In meantime, thanx for that.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html
for instructions.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[meter]

Hello group.

How do I remove a single page from a document (thus making a new doc. from
said page), and still preserve the tracked changes and comments?

Thanks!