tracking changes and reviewing

[lmb]

My friend recently took an Office course at the local college and learned
to make up a nice looking resume in Word. She saved it on a floppy and took
it home. We opened it up and it shows all these balloons on the side and
coloured changes that were made in the process. I had never seen anything
like this and it took us a while to find the Review toolbar and turn these
markups off. We saved it again. She eventually send the resume away for a
job interview (thinking the markup sign were gone), but now we realise that
is not the case (she is very upset in thinking her potential future boss
got the resume looking like that). I have worked with Word for years and
obviously made changes to my work before and I have never seen this kind of
markup signs before. I went into every option and eventually found a way to
get rid of the balloons etc. by setting everything to "none" but it still
shows text from when she first started making the resume. Only when you set
the Review toolbar to show "Final" does it show the actual resume she wants
to send, but somehow it always goes back to "final with markup".
I ended up just retyping the resume on a whole new document and no problems
anymore now (eventhough we made some changes it doesn't show markup signs
now). But it has me bothered and I like to know what started this behaviour
and is there anything you can do to stop a document from showing those
signs if you want to send it as a final resume for a potential job.
(btw we are using Office 2003)

TIA

LMB
ON Canada

 

[Vincent van Straalen]

To stop tracking the changes press on the button "track changes" or
something like that (I use a different language pack). You find this button
on the toolbar that you mentioned. (in my case second on the right)

If there are all those balloons then you can get them all away by pressing
the button with the V sign to accept them all, or by pressing the one with
the X sign to reject them all.
Or accept or reject them one by one. Their are various ways to do this, like
rightclicking on the underlined word or balloon and than click on accept or
reject.

Hope this helps.
Vincent

 

[lmb]

To stop tracking the changes press on the button "track changes" or
something like that (I use a different language pack). You find this
button on the toolbar that you mentioned. (in my case second on the
right)

If there are all those balloons then you can get them all away by
pressing the button with the V sign to accept them all, or by pressing
the one with the X sign to reject them all.
Or accept or reject them one by one. Their are various ways to do
this, like rightclicking on the underlined word or balloon and than
click on accept or reject.

Hope this helps.
Vincent

Thanks a lot, that did help!
We got as far as to turn off "tracking changes" ourselves, but it didn't
seem to be able to get rid of the previous tracking changes markup signs.
Your suggestion of clicking the checkmark button for "accept all
changes" is what did the trick. (and actually an obvious solution, how
come we didn't think of that)
I won't forget if it ever happens again now!

LMB
ON Canada

 

[lmb]

To stop tracking the changes press on the button "track changes" or
something like that (I use a different language pack). You find this
button on the toolbar that you mentioned. (in my case second on the
right)

If there are all those balloons then you can get them all away by
pressing the button with the V sign to accept them all, or by pressing
the one with the X sign to reject them all.
Or accept or reject them one by one. Their are various ways to do
this, like rightclicking on the underlined word or balloon and than
click on accept or reject.

Hope this helps.
Vincent

After some more research I happen to come across a small download from
Microsoft that addresses this problem too. It's an add-in for Word (only
for OfficeXP and 2003)that lets you remove these signs permanently in
case you send it on to people who you wouldn't want to ever see your
previous work efforts (like a resume).
You can download the add-in here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=144e54ed-d43e-
42ca-bc7b-5446d34e5360&displaylang=en

LMB
ON Canada