Reply with Changes... another question on this

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Wim

I know that the "reply with changes" only comes up when the sender has
sent it as "Attachment for Review". But most Office users are
completely unaware of this very handy Office functionality. Hence I
never get any email with attachment with this setting activitated, but
I still need to review lots of those documents! Is there no alternative
(e.g. external plug-in on the internet by some creative programmer /
Outlook lover) that would allow me to easily reply to the mail with the
revised doc attached?

Wim
Durban
Office 2003
WXP-SP2
 
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Beth Melton

Do you mean you want to enable Track Changes on a document? If that's
the case then use Tools/Track Changes.

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Wim

No, that would be lovely simple... No, what I mean is that, when I
receive an email with an Word attachment and I open that doc, make
changes in it and I want to send it back to the original sender as a
reply to the original email, with the revised doc attached, I would
love to see 1 button that does this Reply with Changes for me, instead
of me currently saving the revised document, going back to the original
email, reply to that email and attach to the reply email the save
revised document.......

In other words: the "Reply with Changes" normally only comes when the
sender sends the doc for "Please Review"; I would love to be able to do
"Reply with Changes" in any case = even in the situation that the
sender has NOT sent the doc for "Please Review" (but the sender
actually meant "please review", but just didn't know about this Word
functionality.....).

Why of Why is the current Word functionality "Reply with Review" ONLY
available when the sender has sent the doc through the "Review"
attachment option, why is this functionality not available to any
Office attachment?

I can imagine that some great creative programmers are keen to
programme a small Outlook/Word (and Excel and PP) add-in that would
open the Office file and in the new window a toolbar button added to
allow "Reply with Changes". As I said it IS available when the sender
sends the attachment for "Review", but now I want the same if the
attachment is NOT sent as "Review".

Wim
I am surprised that NO one on the internet has ever raised this
question (except from me a few month ago, wthout receiving
response.....), as this function would be such a lovely help, and I
would use it OFTEN!.
 
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Beth Melton

What do you mean by "button that does this Reply with Changes for me"?
Are you referring to the "Do you want to merge changes" prompt??

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Wim

No. I mean that when I open an Office attachment attached to an email,
and I make changes to that Office document, I would like to be able to
send this revised document as an attachment to the original email I
received, REPLACING the original attachment attached to the original
email.
Wim
 
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Beth Melton

Okay, I think I understand what you are actually asking. Sorry if I
was being a little dense! You're not interested in merging the
documents and comparing the changes, you just want to be able to click
a button to send the document back to the sender, correct?

Unfortunately, the sender needs to use the "For Review" command to
enable this capability. The rationale behind it is it also adds custom
file properties to the document sent as the attachment that are
utilized later. Open a document you received that has the Reply with
Changes command available and go to File/Properties. Select the Custom
tab and note the properties such as, _EmailSubject, _AuthorEmail, and
_AuthorEmailDisplayName. This is the information that is used when you
click the Reply with Changes command to create the reply email.

Other properties, such as _ReviewCycleID are for the sender. When the
edited document is returned and opened the sender will encounter a
"Merge Changes?" prompt. If they answer Yes, then the original and
modified documents are merged and revisions are displayed using Track
Changes. Now, you can use Tools/Compare and Merge Documents if you
want this functionality, you can even use Tools/Track Changes to track
revisions on any document, but the single click "Reply with Changes"
capability has to be initiated by the sender.

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Gary Smith

You can sort of do that if you (1) save the modified document, (2) save
the message to which it is attached, and then (3) forward, not reply, to
the sender. The biggest problem with this appraoch is step 2. Close the
message without saving it, and you lose the changes to the attachment.
 
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