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MAJOR HELP NEEDED- Track Changes
Hello,
My job depends on this answer to my post. I have a user who is our media rep. He is not so bright with MS Word XP, and has not gone to any training classes... you know the story Well, we have had previous trouble with the Track Changes feature in his Word getting turned on. Then he saves the edited document and sends it out, and the recipients get the doc with all the red markup in it. I would like to completely disable this feature in Word XP for him. I have printed out many help docs on how to enable disable with ctrl/shift E and other things, however I don't think this user can contend with having to do anything extra, please would someone help me get the ENTIRE Track Changes feature removed from Word so he will not be bothered with it. It is embarrassing to him to send out a document with edits in it, and he vents his anger on the IS dept. Please anything you can do to help with this matter would be appreciated. |
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MAJOR HELP NEEDED- Track Changes
There is NO foolproof method.
I'd sneak in, rename WordPad as Word, change the icon so it looks like Word, change the file associations so that they use WordPad instead of Word, and then tell him that it's a new super-duper-faster version of Word. Barring that... you could create empty macros that have the same names as all of the Tracking features. Or... not empty. For example, in his Normal.dot, create a macro named: ToolsRevisionMarksToggle and assign to it the following: Sub ToolsRevisionMarksToggle() MsgBox ("The tracking feature has been disabled, you twit! So, please stop trying to activate it!") End Sub Note: the MsgBox line might wrap here, but it's one continuous line. Of course, if you really want to save your job... you might tailor the message so that it's a bit more... er, gracious. Good luck. -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Please respond in the newsgroups so everyone can follow along. http://www.herbtyson.com "susan" wrote in message ... Hello, My job depends on this answer to my post. I have a user who is our media rep. He is not so bright with MS Word XP, and has not gone to any training classes... you know the story Well, we have had previous trouble with the Track Changes feature in his Word getting turned on. Then he saves the edited document and sends it out, and the recipients get the doc with all the red markup in it. I would like to completely disable this feature in Word XP for him. I have printed out many help docs on how to enable disable with ctrl/shift E and other things, however I don't think this user can contend with having to do anything extra, please would someone help me get the ENTIRE Track Changes feature removed from Word so he will not be bothered with it. It is embarrassing to him to send out a document with edits in it, and he vents his anger on the IS dept. Please anything you can do to help with this matter would be appreciated. |
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