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Hi,
I work for a document processing company. I have the need to track changes to show changes to my clients. Can Word 2003 show marked up changes from different proof levels. E.g. if on Monday I produce a document called Proof one, on Tuesday I showed changes to Proof 1 and called it Proof 2; and on Wednesday i did changes to Proof 2 and called it Proof 3. Would it be possible to track ALL changes from the initial Proof 1 all the way to Proof 3? The documents I produce go through many proof stages/revisions, so I may need to show my clients all changes from Proof 3 to Proof 8, and the Clean document without underlining or strikethroughs as well. Can Word 2003 keep historic changes hidden and show them as/when required? Please somebody help! |
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Hi Daryl
The short answer is: No, Word has no functionality of this kind. The long answer is: at Tools Options User Information, create a new "person" called, for example, Proof1, and your changes will be marked as having been made by Mr Proof1. Next day, create a new "person" called Proof2, and so on. If you do this, then in Word 2003 you can choose to view the changes by author. On the Reviewing toolbar, click Show Reviewers to determine whose changes to display. In this way, you can choose to display only Friday's changes, for example. There's some info about track changes at How does Track Changes in Microsoft Word work? http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Daryl" wrote in message ... Hi, I work for a document processing company. I have the need to track changes to show changes to my clients. Can Word 2003 show marked up changes from different proof levels. E.g. if on Monday I produce a document called Proof one, on Tuesday I showed changes to Proof 1 and called it Proof 2; and on Wednesday i did changes to Proof 2 and called it Proof 3. Would it be possible to track ALL changes from the initial Proof 1 all the way to Proof 3? The documents I produce go through many proof stages/revisions, so I may need to show my clients all changes from Proof 3 to Proof 8, and the Clean document without underlining or strikethroughs as well. Can Word 2003 keep historic changes hidden and show them as/when required? Please somebody help! |
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Shauna,
Thanks very much. Your information has been most useful. Do you have any other suggestions as to how I can get around this issue in a more seamless way? I am looking at a product called DeltaView, made by a company called Workshare. It is a comparison tool that allows a document to be compared against its previous proof level, thus producing a redline (3rd) document that highlights changes. Have you heard of DeltaView? I would appreciate your thoughts. Kind regards, Daryl -----Original Message----- Hi Daryl The short answer is: No, Word has no functionality of this kind. The long answer is: at Tools Options User Information, create a new "person" called, for example, Proof1, and your changes will be marked as having been made by Mr Proof1. Next day, create a new "person" called Proof2, and so on. If you do this, then in Word 2003 you can choose to view the changes by author. On the Reviewing toolbar, click Show Reviewers to determine whose changes to display. In this way, you can choose to display only Friday's changes, for example. There's some info about track changes at How does Track Changes in Microsoft Word work? http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/trac.../HowTrackChang esWorks.html Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Daryl" wrote in message ... Hi, I work for a document processing company. I have the need to track changes to show changes to my clients. Can Word 2003 show marked up changes from different proof levels. E.g. if on Monday I produce a document called Proof one, on Tuesday I showed changes to Proof 1 and called it Proof 2; and on Wednesday i did changes to Proof 2 and called it Proof 3. Would it be possible to track ALL changes from the initial Proof 1 all the way to Proof 3? The documents I produce go through many proof stages/revisions, so I may need to show my clients all changes from Proof 3 to Proof 8, and the Clean document without underlining or strikethroughs as well. Can Word 2003 keep historic changes hidden and show them as/when required? Please somebody help! . |
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Hi Daryl
Daryl wrote: I work for a document processing company. I have the need to track changes to show changes to my clients. Can Word 2003 show marked up changes from different proof levels. E.g. if on Monday I produce a document called Proof one, on Tuesday I showed changes to Proof 1 and called it Proof 2; and on Wednesday i did changes to Proof 2 and called it Proof 3. Would it be possible to track ALL changes from the initial Proof 1 all the way to Proof 3? The documents I produce go through many proof stages/revisions, so I may need to show my clients all changes from Proof 3 to Proof 8, and the Clean document without underlining or strikethroughs as well. Can Word 2003 keep historic changes hidden and show them as/when required? Another possibility: Just use your "backup"-versions for this. You get the document, then you save it as a new file (xyStage00.doc). Activate Track/Changes and do all the changes for stage 1. Save again as a new file (xyStage01.doc). Now accept all changes and save as a new file (xyStage02.doc). etc. Whether you use an external tool for this or not, shouldn't matter (as long as you *don't* use Word's own "version" mechanism, which tends to me too big a burden for longer documents). 2cents ..bob -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Do you have any other suggestions as to how I can get
around this issue in a more seamless way? One way is to save each proof in a separate file. Then, whenever you want the changes between any two of them, use Tools Track Changes Compare documents (That's the command for Word 97; Word 03 might differ.) This might not provide everything you need, but it's better than nothing. |
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Hi Daryl
I don't know DeltaView, but I suspect that it is trying to do something different from track changes. Word itself has two functionalities that are kind of relevant to what you're talking about. Track changes tracks the changes that you make in a document. So, you have a document, and you type some new text into it, or you delete some text, and Word marks those changes. This functionality works reasonably well. In Word, Tools Compare and Merge Documents compares two documents. So, you have a document. You think it might be quite similar to another document you have. So you use Tools Compare and Merge Documents to compare the two documents. Word then marks the differences between the two documents by using its own Track Changes functionality to mark the differences. Unfortunately, the Compare functionality doesn't work very well in Word. It often marks gross differences (eg it marks one whole paragraph as different) when there was actually only a fine difference (eg one word was different). Therefore, there are any number of third-party tools available that do a more refined job of the comparison. And my guess is that DeltaView is one of those. So your choices depend on whether you want to track *changes to a document* or see *differences between documents*. Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Daryl" wrote in message ... Shauna, Thanks very much. Your information has been most useful. Do you have any other suggestions as to how I can get around this issue in a more seamless way? I am looking at a product called DeltaView, made by a company called Workshare. It is a comparison tool that allows a document to be compared against its previous proof level, thus producing a redline (3rd) document that highlights changes. Have you heard of DeltaView? I would appreciate your thoughts. Kind regards, Daryl -----Original Message----- Hi Daryl The short answer is: No, Word has no functionality of this kind. The long answer is: at Tools Options User Information, create a new "person" called, for example, Proof1, and your changes will be marked as having been made by Mr Proof1. Next day, create a new "person" called Proof2, and so on. If you do this, then in Word 2003 you can choose to view the changes by author. On the Reviewing toolbar, click Show Reviewers to determine whose changes to display. In this way, you can choose to display only Friday's changes, for example. There's some info about track changes at How does Track Changes in Microsoft Word work? http://www.ShaunaKelly.com/word/trac.../HowTrackChang esWorks.html Hope this helps. Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP. http://www.shaunakelly.com/word "Daryl" wrote in message ... Hi, I work for a document processing company. I have the need to track changes to show changes to my clients. Can Word 2003 show marked up changes from different proof levels. E.g. if on Monday I produce a document called Proof one, on Tuesday I showed changes to Proof 1 and called it Proof 2; and on Wednesday i did changes to Proof 2 and called it Proof 3. Would it be possible to track ALL changes from the initial Proof 1 all the way to Proof 3? The documents I produce go through many proof stages/revisions, so I may need to show my clients all changes from Proof 3 to Proof 8, and the Clean document without underlining or strikethroughs as well. Can Word 2003 keep historic changes hidden and show them as/when required? Please somebody help! . |
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