Disabling change tracking once and for all

Is there a way to remove the change tracking features from Word 2k3? I will
never have any need for them and have them turned off by default, but
sometimes tracked changes will reappear in a file sent from somebody else.
If possible, I'd like to tell Word that I never want to see any change
tracking no matter what.

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Jay
Thu Feb 26 22:02:14 CST 2004

"Wowbagger" <none> wrote:

>Is there a way to remove the change tracking features from Word 2k3? I will
>never have any need for them and have them turned off by default, but
>sometimes tracked changes will reappear in a file sent from somebody else.
>If possible, I'd like to tell Word that I never want to see any change
>tracking no matter what.

No, you can't remove the feature or permanently disable it. However,
if you're really sure you never want to see any revisions from
anybody, you can put this macro into your Normal.dot so you won't have
to fool with them:

Sub AutoOpen()
' turn off tracking
If ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions Then
ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False
End If

' accept all previous changes
If ActiveDocument.Revisions.Count Then
ActiveDocument.Revisions.AcceptAll
End If
End Sub


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Jay Freedman
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Wowbagger
Fri Feb 27 08:35:49 CST 2004

thanks

"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:s0gt30hvncu6paupe7bne34u8ru81u67ff@4ax.com...
> "Wowbagger" <none> wrote:
>
> >Is there a way to remove the change tracking features from Word 2k3? I
will
> >never have any need for them and have them turned off by default, but
> >sometimes tracked changes will reappear in a file sent from somebody
else.
> >If possible, I'd like to tell Word that I never want to see any change
> >tracking no matter what.
>
> No, you can't remove the feature or permanently disable it. However,
> if you're really sure you never want to see any revisions from
> anybody, you can put this macro into your Normal.dot so you won't have
> to fool with them:
>
> Sub AutoOpen()
> ' turn off tracking
> If ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions Then
> ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False
> End If
>
> ' accept all previous changes
> If ActiveDocument.Revisions.Count Then
> ActiveDocument.Revisions.AcceptAll
> End If
> End Sub
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word