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Fuzzhead - 17 Dec 2006 00:03 GMT

I asked this question in the general help area but I thougth it would be
better asked here.

We have just converted our procedure documents from WordPerfect to Word. In
WordPerfect we had a macro for adding Rev Bars when we would make revisions
to our documents. The macro would open a form and ask how long a line to draw
in inches. Then what ever text line the curser was on it would go over to the
right margin and draw a line that long. I looked at the track changes in
Word, but it looks like it will only put a rev bar on whole paragraphs. A lot
of the time we are only changing 1 line in a paragraph and want to show only
that line has changed. Is there a way in Word to create a macro to do the
same thing that we had in WordPerfect?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 17 Dec 2006 07:52 GMT

Track changes only puts a bar alongside the line that is changed, not
alongside the whole of the paragraph. If you set the other evidences that
would be displayed by a change to None (under Tools>Options>Track Changes)
then that bar is all that you will get.

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>I asked this question in the general help area but I thougth it would be
> better asked here.
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> that line has changed. Is there a way in Word to create a macro to do the
> same thing that we had in WordPerfect?

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Fuzzhead - 17 Dec 2006 17:26 GMT

Hi Doug,

How do I get Track Changes to make the changes in the documents and still
leave the Rev Bar? If I add to the line it shows the Rev Barand thats good.
The problem is if I want to delete some thing from the line. How do I get it
to make the deletion and still show the Rev Bar? That way when the document
is issued for use, the guys have the latest document with the correction in
it and see what lines have been changed from the last revision.

> Track changes only puts a bar alongside the line that is changed, not
> alongside the whole of the paragraph. If you set the other evidences that
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> > that line has changed. Is there a way in Word to create a macro to do the
> > same thing that we had in WordPerfect?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 17 Dec 2006 18:52 GMT

I should have mentioned that for deletions, the marking must be set to
Hidden. If you are using Word XP however, for some reason, they did not
make the facility to vary the deleted text mark available to the user via
Tools>Options>Track Changes.

You can however set it so that deleted text is hidden by using the following
command in a macro

Options.DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkHidden

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> Hi Doug,
>
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>> > the
>> > same thing that we had in WordPerfect?

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