Track changes vs. Reviewing

[Lloyd]

Can anyone tell me succintly what the difference is
between sending a document for review, and sending an
attached file which has track changes turned on in it?

I work for a law school and am looking to determine the
most useful method.

Thanks for any help with this.

Lloyd

 

[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Lloyd

As far as I know, sending as an attachment simply opens Outlook and inserts the file in the email as an attachment. Sending for
review does that, and two (or three) other things as well:
1. It adds a little message to the email saying "please review this" or some such.

2. It turns on track changes so that when the reviewer opens the document, track changes is already on and in Word 2002, the
Reviewing toolbar is shown.

3. Word can store information in the document so that, when it comes back to you, your machine will recognize it as yours, and offer
to merge your reviewer's changes back into your original file. This message that offers to do this can be infuriating. For more
information, including how to turn it off, see the information from Beth Melton at
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=107

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Lloyd]

Hi Shauna:

Thanks for responding to my question.

Lloyd

-----Original Message-----
Hi Lloyd

As far as I know, sending as an attachment simply opens

Outlook and inserts the file in the email as an
attachment. Sending for

review does that, and two (or three) other things as well:
1. It adds a little message to the email saying "please review this" or some such.

2. It turns on track changes so that when the reviewer

opens the document, track changes is already on and in
Word 2002, the

Reviewing toolbar is shown.

3. Word can store information in the document so that,

when it comes back to you, your machine will recognize it
as yours, and offer

to merge your reviewer's changes back into your original

file. This message that offers to do this can be
infuriating. For more

information, including how to turn it off, see the

information from Beth Melton at