Word 2011 always opens with Final Showing Markup view

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...

My problem is that if I accept all changes, save the document, and send it to the previous author, it comes up with the changes. He's tried to "save as," but the changes remain even after he "accepts all changes." When he uploads the document to his server at work, it still shows the changes. It also contains all of the comments. We solved it once by deleting the older versions from his Mac, but that is time-consuming. Seems like there should be some way to get around this issue without wasting so much time saving/deleting/renaming documents.

Ok, I can see my "marked changes". When I right-click I see Accept Change and Reject change. Both are grayed out. How do I "accept all changes"?

Hi Steve,

So if I understand correctly, you are seeing marked up changes in the document, but the controls for Accepting or Rejecting them are not enabled. Here is a list of things I would try.

1. Go to the Review tab on toggle the Track Change On/Off button a few times.
2. See if the Accept/Reject feature works from the ribbon. The On/Off button needs to be in the On position.
3. Copy everything from the document except the last paragraph mark and paste it into a new document. This is called a Maggie.
4. After the Maggie, the last section's markup might be lost and you will have to recreate the last Sections Headers and Footers but it should remove the document corruption that I think might exist.

Hope this helps