Save Document with cleaned edit history???

[Angelo Campanella]

I am a user that habitually edits the same document (start crude, end
days later perfected) ending up with a much changed document that merits
saving after several days or weeks. This MO generates tremendous history
addenda that is useless but makes for huge documents, typically two to
ten times the final content. I want to clean out the trash and just save
the final pristine document.

"Versions" is no good. Simple saves do the obvious (keeps everything). I
found that if I 'save as' a document with an altered name, it seems does
not save the edit history, but that then leaves the old document still n
my directory, still more HD clutter.

There ought to be a command in the FILE menu entry screen that allows a
"Save-Cleaned" action. I do not want to turn off "history" because it is
valuable to save time when composing complex ideas and perfecting
presentation.

MS probably has a clean save option, but I can't find it. (I use MSW 97).

Help!

Angelo Campanella
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"Every day, we perform on the stage that we set yesterday." AJC.

 

[Jezebel]

SaveAs with the original name will do it.

 

[Angelo Campanella]

SaveAs with the original name will do it.

You are a genius! It sure works... But, FYI, in browsing big Word
files, a real change has to have been done (add a space, pull out a CR,
etc.) in order for it to be cleaned before being saved.

Cheers,

Angelo Campanella
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