Eliminating Prior Track Changes When beginning anew with document

[Henri_Bailey]

I have a final document from last year which was developed
collaboratively. After final editing, the document was
shown as Final without mark-ups showing and copies were
made, printed and displayed on the web. Now it is a year
later and we want to take last year's final copy and
collaboratively make changes since that time and track the
changes for this year until we produce a new final
document. The trouble is, when I turn on Track Changes it
shows all of last years changes and I haven't been able to
eliminate those so we can start afresh this year. Perhaps
we don't use Track Changes enough but this has me stymied
right now and a project completion date is getting
closer. Any help out there?

 

[Jay Freedman]

Accept all existing changes. In Word 2000 this is done with Tools > Track
Changes > Accept or Reject Changes > Accept All. In other versions the menu
structure is slightly different -- check the Help topic.

After accepting changes, save the document (use Save As and supply a
different name if you want to keep the original document with all the
changes marked).