Graciela has a huge document with many changes that were made with Track Changes turned on. Some of these changes are formatting changes and some of them are of other types, such as textual edits. Graciela would like to accept all the formatting changes but not the other types of changes. She is curious if there is an "accept all" command that will accept only the formatting changes.
It is relatively easy to accomplish this task. Just follow these steps:
If you find yourself getting rid of the formatting changes quite a bit, you can instruct Word to not track formatting changes at all. Follow these steps if you are using Word 2007 or Word 2010:
Figure 1. The Track Changes Options dialog box.
If you are using Word 2013 or a later version, follow these steps instead:
Figure 2. The Advanced Track Changes Options dialog box.
Now Word won't track any of the formatting changes you make in the document. If you find that the setting is not persistent from one Word session to another, you can create a small macro to run whenever a document is opened. Simply add this single line to the macro:
ActiveDocument.TrackFormatting = False
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2021-06-21 14:45:00
Robert Cristiano
Hi Alan,
This may apply only to me in Word 2016 because I tend to keep my documents in Simple Markup mode. I believe the following informational step might be helpful in the first procedure between steps 1 & 2.
1a. Make sure All Markup is is displayed (in the Tracking group).
Thanks for the good information.
Regards,
Robert
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