Track changes: Should it be used under that circumstances?

[Pia Kraus]

I have to edit a manual for some years, and I want to prepare my
environment perfectly to avoid *some* of the problems in future.
My question:
The document will be revised by human readers outside the office (on
paper). To show them the changings I want to use track changes.
But: As the changes on different pages are accepted or rejected by
different reviewers at different times, I will never have the chance to
accept all changes. So my document will always contain *open" changes.
Will my document live long or will it crash eventually? Is there a
possibility to remove old, no more needed track changing data from a
document?

Pia

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Pia,

You can use the "Previous" and "Next" buttons in the Reviewing toolbar to
move from change to change, then Accept/Reject each individual change. It
would also be possible to work in the Reviewing TaskBar, where you'd also
see the author name, the date, etc.

The document will be revised by human readers outside the office (on
paper). To show them the changings I want to use track changes.
But: As the changes on different pages are accepted or rejected by
different reviewers at different times, I will never have the chance to
accept all changes. So my document will always contain *open" changes.
Will my document live long or will it crash eventually? Is there a
possibility to remove old, no more needed track changing data from a
document?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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