Mark Up View Driving Me Crazy

I have a large document that was assigned to me for update. The view always opens in mark up. This makes the 26 page document suddenly jump to 70 plus pages. I have tried saving my normal.dot to a normal view. I have tried changing the document view & saving the document after the change. This is driving me crazy to have to keep resetting the view each time I open the document. Is there a way to change the opening view and make it stick??????

I believe the original author protected the document. When I try to select "unprotect" I am prompted for a password that I was not supplied with. Could the protection of this document be preventing me from making these changes stick?

The document is in Word 2003. OS is Windows 2000 Professional

Since my company upgraded to Word 2003, many of us are having this problem. Any assistance with getting word documents to open in a normal view would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Jayne

Have you cleared the check box for "Make hidden markup visible when opening
or saving" on the Security tab of Tools | Options?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Jayne Mae" Jayne wrote in message
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I have a large document that was assigned to me for update. The view
always opens in mark up. This makes the 26 page document suddenly jump to 70
plus pages. I have tried saving my normal.dot to a normal view. I have tried
changing the document view & saving the document after the change. This is
driving me crazy to have to keep resetting the view each time I open the
document. Is there a way to change the opening view and make it stick??????

I believe the original author protected the document. When I try to select
"unprotect" I am prompted for a password that I was not supplied with. Could
the protection of this document be preventing me from making these changes
stick?

The document is in Word 2003. OS is Windows 2000 Professional

Since my company upgraded to Word 2003, many of us are having this
problem. Any assistance with getting word documents to open in a normal view
would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Jayne

No, I haven't tried that. I have received your reply at home. I don't have the document on my home PC. I can't wait to try it. I will post another reply as soon as I am able to test it out. My gratitude for your reply and suggestion.

Thanks,
Jayne

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Have you cleared the check box for "Make hidden markup visible when opening
or saving" on the Security tab of Tools | Options?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jayne Mae" Jayne wrote in message
...
I have a large document that was assigned to me for update. The view
always opens in mark up. This makes the 26 page document suddenly jump to 70
plus pages. I have tried saving my normal.dot to a normal view. I have tried
changing the document view & saving the document after the change. This is
driving me crazy to have to keep resetting the view each time I open the
document. Is there a way to change the opening view and make it stick??????

I believe the original author protected the document. When I try to select
"unprotect" I am prompted for a password that I was not supplied with. Could
the protection of this document be preventing me from making these changes
stick?

The document is in Word 2003. OS is Windows 2000 Professional

Since my company upgraded to Word 2003, many of us are having this
problem. Any assistance with getting word documents to open in a normal view
would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Jayne

The suggestion helped with some documents but not with the "monster" document. Any other suggestion would be appreciated. When I ask to "unprotect" the document I am promped for a password. I have contacted the originator. The originator claims that the file was never password protected. How can I get around both of the problems?

Again, any help or suggestions are most appreciated.

Jayne Mae

"Jayne Mae" wrote:

No, I haven't tried that. I have received your reply at home. I don't have the document on my home PC. I can't wait to try it. I will post another reply as soon as I am able to test it out. My gratitude for your reply and suggestion.

Thanks,
Jayne

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Have you cleared the check box for "Make hidden markup visible when opening
or saving" on the Security tab of Tools | Options?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jayne Mae" Jayne wrote in message
...
I have a large document that was assigned to me for update. The view
always opens in mark up. This makes the 26 page document suddenly jump to 70
plus pages. I have tried saving my normal.dot to a normal view. I have tried
changing the document view & saving the document after the change. This is
driving me crazy to have to keep resetting the view each time I open the
document. Is there a way to change the opening view and make it stick??????

I believe the original author protected the document. When I try to select
"unprotect" I am prompted for a password that I was not supplied with. Could
the protection of this document be preventing me from making these changes
stick?

The document is in Word 2003. OS is Windows 2000 Professional

Since my company upgraded to Word 2003, many of us are having this
problem. Any assistance with getting word documents to open in a normal view
would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance for your help,
Jayne