Skip cross-reference changes when clicking "Next" in the rev toolb

[Guest]

Hi All:

I review changes that people make to very large MS Word documents (I use
Office 2003). Even if they make a very small change to the large document,
when they update the table of contents and all cross-references (such as
links to heading numbers or heading text in the text of the document), many
times these numerous cross references are shown as a change (even when it is
the same text).

My problem is that even for a one sentence change in a large document (that
someone else does, so I have no control over what they do), every time I
click on "Next" in the revision toolbar, I go to a changed cross-reference,
when I would really just like to see what text the author him/herself changed.

Is there any way that I can click "next", and only see the text that the
author has changed, and not all the updated cross-references?

Thanks,
Rob

 

[Robert M. Franz (RMF)]

Hello Rob

I review changes that people make to very large MS Word documents (I use
Office 2003). Even if they make a very small change to the large document,
when they update the table of contents and all cross-references (such as
links to heading numbers or heading text in the text of the document), many
times these numerous cross references are shown as a change (even when it is
the same text).

My problem is that even for a one sentence change in a large document (that
someone else does, so I have no control over what they do), every time I
click on "Next" in the revision toolbar, I go to a changed cross-reference,
when I would really just like to see what text the author him/herself changed.

Is there any way that I can click "next", and only see the text that the
author has changed, and not all the updated cross-references?

Not that I'm aware of, no. A field update is a change, of sorts, and the
legal users would yell at MSFT if Word wouldn't show it as such, I
reckon ...

Greetinx
Robert

 

[Guest]

To keep the legal folks happy, is there a switch anywhere to tell MS Word to
skip the cross-references when going to the next difference? This way,
either method can be chosen and everybody is happy.

 

[Rob]

To keep the legal folks happy, is there a switch anywhere to tell MS Word to
skip the cross-references when going to the next difference? This way,
either method can be chosen and everybody is happy.

I figured out how to do this without accepting each change manually. It
is explained here:

http://robsnotebook.com/ms-word-track-changes-printing-crossrefs

Rob
http://www.robsnotebook.com