Word 2011 always opens with Final Showing Markup view

Anonymous
2011-07-13T21:11:04+00:00

EVERY SINGLE TIME I open a document created with Mac Word 2011 I get the Final Showing Markup version.  I don't WANT to see all the changes.  But no matter how many times I try to save the document with Tracking set to Final and/or the Show Markup categories unchecked, it still opens the next time with all the stupid changes showing in red—Tracking set to Final Showing Markup and every Show Markup category checked.  (Tracking is turned OFF, so I can't even see why it's keeping that information.)

And there is no way in Preferences to set this, either.  Just "how do you want the changes to look?", not "do you even want to see the @#$% stupid changes in the first place?"  !!!!!!!!!!!

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Anonymous
2011-07-13T21:27:25+00:00

You've got to Accept or Reject All changes ... that's the only way they disappear.

Keep Tracked Changes turned off and if you do need to see "what's different" between two versions of the same document, investigate the Compare Document feature.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-02-23T14:24:11+00:00

    Do a "Maggie" on the document:

    1.  turn on hidden characters the ¶ button.

    2.  click at beginning of document.

    3.  scroll to end of document

    4.  click just before the last ¶.*

    5.  now do a copy (⌘-C)

    6.  open a new blank document

    7.  now do a Paste (⌘-V)

    8.  now save document with a slightly different name (example: letter.docx would become letter1.docx

    This should correct any corruption.

    *  example:

    John hit the ball out of the park.¶ ⬅copy to here

    ¶ ⬅not here.

    Do this with each Document you run across. that exhibits this after you have removed the defective Normal.dotm File.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-02-23T00:17:11+00:00

    Sorry I meant getting to a new document that the settings are for "Final"  - in other words turning off what seems to be a default setting.

    Rats - looked into the settings for Tool->Track Changes->Highlight Changes and even after one deselects all the menu items, they reappear as they were when you open the doc again.

    I give up!

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-23T00:12:25+00:00

    Sorry I meant getting to a new document that the settings are for "Final"  - in other words turning off what seems to be a default setting.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-02-23T00:10:38+00:00

    I have been having the same problem.  Accepting all changes works fine for an existing document.  However, every new document I open also defaults to "Final Showing Markup" in the Review Tab.  

    I have tried everything to turn this off and reset it.  I am convinced it is a bug or at least an undocumented feature.  I am open for suggestion.

    Yes I too am not sure how one gets to a new document that the settings are for "Final Showing Markup" - each time I have been going to Tools->Track Changes->Highlight Changes and deselecting all the things that have been selected.  Probably would make sense to save one of these as my preferred template.

    But I doubt I will get around to that - rather grouse about MS.

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