Tracking changes

[Guest]

In Word 2002. I want to track my changes to a document by putting bars in the columns only.
The edited content always remains behind with a strike out through it.
I had always been able to do it in word 2000.

How do I stop the old content from being displayed with a strike through?

Thanks.

 

[Greg Maxey]

Mike,

You will have to run a macro. The following provides a means of controlling
most of the options. Here it is set up to show the margin marks only.:

Sub TrackChanges()

With Application.Options
.RevisedLinesMark = wdRevisedLinesMarkOutsideBorder
.RevisedLinesColor = wdAuto
' .DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkStrikeThrough
' .DeletedTextColor = wdRed
' .DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkHidden
' .InsertedTextMark = wdInsertedTextMarkItalic
' .InsertedTextColor = wdBlue
' .InsertedTextMark = wdInsertedTextMarkColorOnly
' .InsertedTextColor = wdAuto
' .RevisedPropertiesMark = wdRevisedPropertiesMarkColorOnly
' .RevisedPropertiesColor = wdAuto
' .RevisedPropertiesMark = wdRevisedPropertiesMarkColorOnly
' .RevisedPropertiesColor = wdViolet

End With
End Sub

Remove the ' next to lines you want to activate. Put a ' next to the lines
you want to deactivate. You can change color choices as well.

You only need to run the macro once.

 

[Guest]

I have created a Macro.
I can change EVERYTHING using the macro except having all changes DELETED.
I can change it to any other combo, even if I use the following line, deleted lines will still show up as underlined.

.DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkHidden

Any ideas?
Thanks.

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Do you have SRs applied? IIRC, when Word 2002 was first released, not only
was the control over deleted text mark gone from the dialog, but you
couldn't use wdDeletedTextMarkHidden either! (Someone at MS was obviously
very certain they knew better than generations of 'change bar only' writers
and publishers <sigh>).

After SR1, the setting definitely does work.

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I have created a Macro.
I can change EVERYTHING using the macro except having all changes DELETED.
I can change it to any other combo, even if I use the following line,

deleted lines will still show up as underlined.