Keep Changed Lines Bar After Accepting Changes

[Guest]

Is there any way to have Word keep the Changed Lines Bar displayed after you
accept the associated change?

We would like to accept the changes, but keep the bar so we can have a
subtle reminder of where we made changes in the current document.

Thanks,
Lance.

 

[Guest]

Lance:

I don't know of any way to do that without a macro, but it should be a
relatively simple macro. You'd have to create your own macro to emulate the
acceptance of the revision, then add code to set the selection's border
properties.

Bear

 

[Guest]

Our office likes to have before and after versions of documents going through
tracked changes.

My suggestion is saving a "before" version and then an "after" version. To
find changes, you can do Merge & Compare.

--Ben M
XP, Office 2003
Currently eating: Pineapples.

 

[Guest]

In our office, we do a similar thing, but instead of actually accepting the
changes, we just set our options so the changes only show up as the rev. bar.
We set Insertions to "None," deletions to "Hidden," and leave the bars
showing. Then we PDF it (so nobody can screw up our original) and print from
the PDF.

 

[Guest]

We have decided to do something like what Bear has described. Before we
accept all changes, I will go into the document and turn track-changes off
and then turn on the left border for each line that has a change and then
accept all changes. We will then send it off to the publisher...

Thanks for all the suggestions!
- Lance

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Note, however, that these settings are local. How it will look to your
publisher will depend on the Track Changes settings on his machine (unless
you've printed this to PDF).

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

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