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kamtree - 21 Sep 2005 02:26 GMT

I'm using Word 2003, and I'd like to be able to fix the reviewing pane on the
reviewing toolbar so it's like earlier versions of Word--in other words so
that it shows only comments, not deleted or inserted text. And while I'm at
it, I'd love to be able to fix it so when I move the cursor over text with
tracked changes, no pop-ups would appear showing me deleted or inserted text.
I still want comments to pop up. If anyone can help me with this, I will be
most grateful. Having to scroll through all those changes in the reviewing
pane (which I have no need to see) in order to read or revise a comment is
wasting TONS of my time. I already see the deleted and inserted text in the
document--I don't need to see it in pop ups or in the reviewing pane. Okay,
enough ranting.
Thanks.

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Graham Mayor - 25 Sep 2005 09:56 GMT

You can control what appears in the reviewing pane from the Show menu on the
Reviewing toolbar.
If you only want comments, turn off track changes.

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> I'm using Word 2003, and I'd like to be able to fix the reviewing
> pane on the reviewing toolbar so it's like earlier versions of
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> in the reviewing pane. Okay, enough ranting.
> Thanks.

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kamtree - 25 Sep 2005 13:55 GMT

Thank you for your response. That helps. I still want to see my track changes
in the document, though. Do you know if there's any way I can continue to see
the insertions and deletions in the document but have only comments show up
in the reviewing pane? If I could set it that way, that would be ideal for my
purposes.
Or will I, every time I want to see only comments in the reviewing pane,
have to go to the Show menu and uncheck insertions and deletions, and then
after I look at the comments in the reviewing pane, go back to the Show menu
and turn insertions and deletions on again? That will be better than it was,
but it's a lot of steps.

> You can control what appears in the reviewing pane from the Show menu on the
> Reviewing toolbar.
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> > in the reviewing pane. Okay, enough ranting.
> > Thanks.

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Graham Mayor - 25 Sep 2005 14:10 GMT

I don't think that's possible, but you could assign the following macro to a
keyboard shortcut to toggle insertions and deletions etc, leaving only
comments without wading through the menus.

Sub ToggleDeletions()
WordBasic.ShowInkAnnotations
WordBasic.ShowInsertionsAndDeletions
WordBasic.ShowFormatting
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

> Thank you for your response. That helps. I still want to see my track
> changes in the document, though. Do you know if there's any way I can
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>>> in pop ups or in the reviewing pane. Okay, enough ranting.
>>> Thanks.

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kamtree - 25 Sep 2005 16:01 GMT

Thanks. That's a great idea.
yours,
Kam

> I don't think that's possible, but you could assign the following macro to a
> keyboard shortcut to toggle insertions and deletions etc, leaving only
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> >>> in pop ups or in the reviewing pane. Okay, enough ranting.
> >>> Thanks.

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