Track Changes/Change bars disappear Stella Rivera 12/31/2008 7:14:01 PM I received a document (in Word 2003) with track changes on. When I accept the changes, the changes are made but the change bars disappear and I need them. I missed something somewhere. Appreciate any help. -- Stella Rivera

Re: Track Changes/Change bars disappear Jay Freedman <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 12/31/2008 7:33:40 PM On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:14:01 -0800, Stella Rivera <StellaRivera[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I received a document (in Word 2003) with track changes on. When I accept >the changes, the changes are made but the change bars disappear and I need >them. I missed something somewhere. Appreciate any help. Unfortunately you haven't missed anything; that's just the way Word works. When you accept changes, Word doesn't retain any "memory" of where the changes were, and that includes the change bars. Instead of accepting changes, you have to go into the Track Changes Options dialog to set the markup for insertions to "none" and for deletions to "hidden". That will allow the change bars to remain, while making the markup look the same as if the changes had been accepted. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

Re: Track Changes/Change bars disappear Stella Rivera 12/31/2008 7:45:01 PM That did the trick. Thanks so much. -- Stella Rivera "Jay Freedman" wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:14:01 -0800, Stella Rivera > <StellaRivera[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >I received a document (in Word 2003) with track changes on. When I accept > >the changes, the changes are made but the change bars disappear and I need > >them. I missed something somewhere. Appreciate any help. > > Unfortunately you haven't missed anything; that's just the way Word works. When > you accept changes, Word doesn't retain any "memory" of where the changes were, > and that includes the change bars. > > Instead of accepting changes, you have to go into the Track Changes Options > dialog to set the markup for insertions to "none" and for deletions to "hidden". > That will allow the change bars to remain, while making the markup look the same > as if the changes had been accepted. > > > -- > Regards, > Jay Freedman > Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >