[H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

[Brian Weeden]

This is driving me nuts.  At some point in the last few weeks, my copy of
Word 2007 has decided that every time I open a Word document, it will turn
on track changes and set the view to "final".  This is incredibly annoying,
since it means I have to go in and change those settings so I can actually
tell if people made changes or comments in a document.

I've tried deleting my normal word template and completly
uninstalling/reinstalling Office to no avail.  Googling seems to turn out a
lot of stuff about track changes but nothing with regard to this issue.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this before I tear my hair out?

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Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation 
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

[Christopher Fisk]

On Wed, 26 May 2010, Brian Weeden wrote:


This is driving me nuts.  At some point in the last few weeks, my copy of
Word 2007 has decided that every time I open a Word document, it will turn
on track changes and set the view to "final".  This is incredibly annoying,
since it means I have to go in and change those settings so I can actually
tell if people made changes or comments in a document.

I've tried deleting my normal word template and completly
uninstalling/reinstalling Office to no avail.  Googling seems to turn out a
lot of stuff about track changes but nothing with regard to this issue.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this before I tear my hair out?


Do you have a roaming profile that could be overwriting the changes you're 
making to the normal.dot?



Christopher Fisk

Re: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

[Brian Weeden]

Not that I know of.  When I open a document and it does this, if I go into
the Word Options, Trust Center, and Privacy Settings, the box for "make
hidden markup visible when opening or saving" is checked.  So somehow Word
is ignoring its own options.

---
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation 
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christopher Fisk wrote:

> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Brian Weeden wrote:
>
>  This is driving me nuts.  At some point in the last few weeks, my copy of
>> Word 2007 has decided that every time I open a Word document, it will turn
>> on track changes and set the view to "final".  This is incredibly
>> annoying,
>> since it means I have to go in and change those settings so I can actually
>> tell if people made changes or comments in a document.
>>
>> I've tried deleting my normal word template and completly
>> uninstalling/reinstalling Office to no avail.  Googling seems to turn out
>> a
>> lot of stuff about track changes but nothing with regard to this issue.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how I can fix this before I tear my hair out?
>>
>
> Do you have a roaming profile that could be overwriting the changes you're
> making to the normal.dot?
>
>
> Christopher Fisk
>

Re: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

[FORC5]

do u right click and run as administrator ? Maybe  ? Just a thought.
hate word 07
wonder if 10 is any better
fp

At 11:32 AM 5/26/2010, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with:
>Not that I know of.  When I open a document and it does this, if I go into
>the Word Options, Trust Center, and Privacy Settings, the box for "make
>hidden markup visible when opening or saving" is checked.  So somehow Word
>is ignoring its own options.
>
>---
>Brian Weeden
>Technical Advisor
>Secure World Foundation 
>+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
>+1 (202) 683-8534 US
>
>
>On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christopher Fisk wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Brian Weeden wrote:
>>
>>  This is driving me nuts.  At some point in the last few weeks, my copy of
>>> Word 2007 has decided that every time I open a Word document, it will turn
>>> on track changes and set the view to "final".  This is incredibly
>>> annoying,
>>> since it means I have to go in and change those settings so I can actually
>>> tell if people made changes or comments in a document.
>>>
>>> I've tried deleting my normal word template and completly
>>> uninstalling/reinstalling Office to no avail.  Googling seems to turn out
>>> a
>>> lot of stuff about track changes but nothing with regard to this issue.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how I can fix this before I tear my hair out?
>>>
>>
>> Do you have a roaming profile that could be overwriting the changes you're
>> making to the normal.dot?
>>
>>
>> Christopher Fisk
>>
>
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Re: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

[maccrawj]

XP was the last not to bloated version IMO.

Assume you do not have the issue with new blank document?

Found this with Google:

"That will happen as long as the document contains tracked changes. It's
basically there to protect you--to prevent you from thinking you can send
the document to someone without their being able to see the tracked changes.
The current behavior is based on an earlier Word version (pre-Word 2003, I
think) in which the on/off display of tracked changes was remembered per
document, and people were sending clients changes (sometimes containing
embarrassing comments) without being aware.

So... to keep them from reappearing each time, you'll need to accept or
reject the changes, then turn tracking off.


Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com";


On 5/26/2010 2:56 PM, FORC5 wrote:

do u right click and run as administrator ? Maybe  ? Just a thought.
hate word 07
wonder if 10 is any better
fp

At 11:32 AM 5/26/2010, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with:

Not that I know of.  When I open a document and it does this, if I go into
the Word Options, Trust Center, and Privacy Settings, the box for "make
hidden markup visible when opening or saving" is checked.  So somehow Word
is ignoring its own options.

---
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US


On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Christopher Fiskwrote:


On Wed, 26 May 2010, Brian Weeden wrote:

  This is driving me nuts.  At some point in the last few weeks, my copy of

Word 2007 has decided that every time I open a Word document, it will turn
on track changes and set the view to "final".  This is incredibly
annoying,
since it means I have to go in and change those settings so I can actually
tell if people made changes or comments in a document.

I've tried deleting my normal word template and completly
uninstalling/reinstalling Office to no avail.  Googling seems to turn out
a
lot of stuff about track changes but nothing with regard to this issue.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this before I tear my hair out?



Do you have a roaming profile that could be overwriting the changes you're
making to the normal.dot?


Christopher Fisk



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Re: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

[Vincent Winterling]

I've been stymied by this problem and found that I could eliminate the issue
by accepting the changes and then saving the document on which track changes
was used. Seems to solve the problem.

Vincent Winterling
Vineland, NJ

-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:36 PM
To: hwg
Subject: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

This is driving me nuts.  At some point in the last few weeks, my copy of
Word 2007 has decided that every time I open a Word document, it will turn
on track changes and set the view to "final".  This is incredibly annoying,
since it means I have to go in and change those settings so I can actually
tell if people made changes or comments in a document.

I've tried deleting my normal word template and completly
uninstalling/reinstalling Office to no avail.  Googling seems to turn out a
lot of stuff about track changes but nothing with regard to this issue.

Any suggestions on how I can fix this before I tear my hair out?

---
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US

Re: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

[Brian Weeden]

Sure, except if I then open the file again it automatically turns  
track changes on again.  And this happens with every doc I open.


The really annoying bit is that it defaults to not showing any changes/ 
comments


I think there is a profile or something somewhere on my system that is  
overriding the default settings in word.  No idea what it could be tho.


---
Brian

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On 2010-05-27, at 5:09 AM, "Vincent Winterling"  
 wrote:


I've been stymied by this problem and found that I could eliminate  
the issue
by accepting the changes and then saving the document on which track  
changes

was used. Seems to solve the problem.

Vincent Winterling
Vineland, NJ

-Original Message-
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:36 PM
To: hwg
Subject: [H] Most annoying Office bug ever (track changes)

This is driving me nuts.  At some point in the last few weeks, my  
copy of
Word 2007 has decided that every time I open a Word document, it  
will turn
on track changes and set the view to "final".  This is incredibly  
annoying,
since it means I have to go in and change those settings so I can  
actually

tell if people made changes or comments in a document.

I've tried deleting my normal word template and completly
uninstalling/reinstalling Office to no avail.  Googling seems to  
turn out a
lot of stuff about track changes but nothing with regard to this  
issue.


Any suggestions on how I can fix this before I tear my hair out?

---
Brian Weeden
Technical Advisor
Secure World Foundation <http://www.secureworldfoundation.org>
+1 (514) 466-2756 Canada
+1 (202) 683-8534 US