Microsoft Word 2007 Question

[LazyLion]

I have a document that I update every week. It is the minutes of our weekly office meeting. It has a Title and a Table with action points and names of people responsible.

But every week when I go to open last week's document (to update for this week - I don't wanna have to recreate the whole thing), it defaults to Markup view (Final Showing Markup). You know.,.. the view where it shows all the of the changes to the document, editing, etc.

I don't want it to do that. I never asked it to do that. I turn it off and switch back to Normal (Final) view.

But as sure as Bob Mugabe's a Butthead it comes back again with the markup view. Every single time I open the document!

somebody please tell me how to stop it from doing that!

 

[Darknet]

Just 2 ideas spring to mind.
Are you exiting by pressing the X or by going to File/Exit?
Are the settings protected in some way by the program >> multi-user mode or similar?

 

[LazyLion]

I exit either way... but always after I have pressed Ctrl-S to save.

I normally click on the X when I am getting out of Word... or I click File close when I am gonna work on another document.

I don't think the file is set for multi-user permissions... I'll check.. .but I don't remember enabling that.

 

[avi]

This is the default view in word2007 and I don't think it can be changed
If you don't want to see changes, you can switch off track changes by clicking on the track changes button or you can just accept all changes in the document to stop seeing changes.

 

[avi]

Ok, ignore my previous post, turns out you can make a VB macro to run whenever you open a document that sets the view to "Final"

1. Press ALT+F11 to open the Visual basic editor
2. Right click on Normal and go to Insert>Module
3. Copy paste this code:

Sub AutoOpen()
With ActiveWindow.View
.ShowRevisionsAndComments = False
.RevisionsView = wdRevisionsViewFinal
End With
End Sub

Then next time you open a document, the macro will run and set your view to final

 

[LazyLion]

thanks!!! I'll give that a shot!