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
    2014-05-23T01:35:24+00:00

    Well you could always try a macro in Normal.dotm which sets the view property for all documents when they are opened, e.g.

    Open Word 2011

    Select the Developer tab in your Ribbon (Ribbon preferences to turn it on if you cannot see it)

    Click Editor

    In the Project popup double click Normal.dotm->Microsoft Word Objects->ThisDocument

    In the editor (which should have title Normal.dotm - ThisDocument (Code)) select Document in the top left drop down and then Open in the top right drop down

    This will create a macro stub labelled

    Private Sub Document_Open()

    Enter the following code under this and before the End Sub line, so it looks like this:

    Private Sub Document_Open()

        With Word.ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View

            .ShowRevisionsAndComments = False

            .RevisionsView = wdRevisionsViewFinal

        End With

    End Sub

    Go to Word menu on the top of your screen and click File->Save Normal.dotm

    Go to Word menu on the top of your screen and select Word->Close and Return to Microsoft Word

    Try opening a document...

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  2. Jim G 134.1K Reputation points MVP
    2014-03-15T15:42:53+00:00

    What do you mean by “turning this default off”?

    Track changes are per document. You must accept all or reject all changes in a document to turn track changes off in a given document.

    The discussion also mentions the possibility that one’s Normal template (the template Word uses when you make a new, blank document) may have been saved with Track Changes turned on. Rich explains how to turn track changes off in your Normal template.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-03-15T11:30:23+00:00

    I am sorry but none of this works on Word 2011 for Mac.  Come on there has to be an easy way of turning this default off.  Doesn't anybody have a real solution.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-03-15T11:29:15+00:00

    I am sorry but none of this works on Word 2011 for Mac.  Come on there has to be an easy way of turning this default off.  Doesn't anybody have a real solution.

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