Word 2003 - Track Changes

[Howard Cross]

Greetings,

I have two copies of Word 2003. One opens a document and it looks normal.
(This is my TabletPC.) I open the same document and the change balloons
show. This is a locked document from my client. The icon for tracking
changes is ghosted on both machines. Both machines have the Use balloons set
to never on the Track Changes tab in the Options dialog box.

Why does my desktop show the changes and not the tablet?

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Howard,

I have two copies of Word 2003. One opens a document and it looks normal.
(This is my TabletPC.) I open the same document and the change balloons
show. This is a locked document from my client. The icon for tracking
changes is ghosted on both machines. Both machines have the Use balloons set
to never on the Track Changes tab in the Options dialog box.

Why does my desktop show the changes and not the tablet?

Are you opening both from a file saved to disk? Or in the case of the desktop
are you opening the file from an email attachment?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Howard Cross]

In both cases, the file opened is the same saved file from the same
directory on the same shared drive.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Howard,

In both cases, the file opened is the same saved file from the same
directory on the same shared drive.

No idea, then, why the two would be behaving differently. Both documents are
opening the same view (Print Layout), right?

If you were opening from Email in one case, then I'd say an option in Outlook
was responsible. If the track changes button is greyed out, has the "owner" of
the document activated document protection for that mode? (If he has not, then
I'd worry the document has been damaged.)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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