Change default to Final tracking in word 2010

Hi,
I was wondering if I can get some help with this show markup issue.
Every time I open up an existing word document, I see the mark-up thing on the right hand side. I went to Review on the menu toolbar to change it from final: show Markup to just final.
My question is if I want the default to be "Final", how do i go about it?
I have tried to deselect "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving" but to no avail.
I have also tried to uncheck "Keep track of formatting" under the word option and this does not work either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance

Create an AutoOpen macro in the Normal.dotm template (or in a template that is saved in the Word Startup Folder so that it acts as an add-in) that contains the following code:
ActiveDocument.ShowRevisions = False
Hope this helps.
Doug Robbins - Word MVP,
dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org
Posted via the Community Bridge
"associates" wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Hi,
I was wondering if I can get some help with this show markup issue.
Every time I open up an existing word document, I see the mark-up thing on the right hand side. I went to Review on the menu toolbar to change it from final: show Markup to just final.
My question is if I want the default to be "Final", how do i go about it?
I have tried to deselect "Make hidden markup visible when opening or saving" but to no avail.
I have also tried to uncheck "Keep track of formatting" under the word option and this does not work either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance
Doug Robbins - Word MVP dkr[atsymbol]mvps[dot]org

Similar Messages

How to change the default left alignment setting in Word 2010 professional (personal use)

Hi, I use Word 2010 Professional for my personal use at home, and somehow the default setting for the left alignment in a new Word document has been changed to a hanging indent at .25. So every time I open a new Word document, the left margin
has an indent setting. I have to change it to 0.0 every time, which is annoying.
I've tried to go into the "Options" section, under "Custom Settings" to de-select an auto left margin indentation, but I can't seem to find an option to do that. Can anyone please tell me how to change this setting in the master Word 2010 template,
so that every time I open a new doc, the left side is aligned at the 1" margin with no hanging indent?
Thank you.

Page Layout-Page Setup-Margins-Custom Margins...-change your setting-Set As DefaultStay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Default file destination in Microsoft Word 2010 Mail Merge to PDF

I'm using windows 2010, and Adobe Acrobat X Standard.
I have a mail merge template that I created in Microsoft Word 2010 that I use to send out multiple price quotes to customers who are bidding jobs. When I merge to Adobe PDF everything works properly (everyone receives their unique PDF, etc.), but every time I do this Adobe requires that I select a destination folder for it to send the PDF's it generates that get attatched to the emails.
When I save a Word Doc as a PDF it automatically saves it in the same folder at the word document it was created from. Is there a way I can set up my 'Merge to Adobe PDF' feature to do the same thing when it generates the merged PDF files? It's just a hastle to map the entire file path of the desination folder every time I send out a quote.
Thanks for your help!

I'm using windows 2010, and Adobe Acrobat X Standard.
I have a mail merge template that I created in Microsoft Word 2010 that I use to send out multiple price quotes to customers who are bidding jobs. When I merge to Adobe PDF everything works properly (everyone receives their unique PDF, etc.), but every time I do this Adobe requires that I select a destination folder for it to send the PDF's it generates that get attatched to the emails.
When I save a Word Doc as a PDF it automatically saves it in the same folder at the word document it was created from. Is there a way I can set up my 'Merge to Adobe PDF' feature to do the same thing when it generates the merged PDF files? It's just a hastle to map the entire file path of the desination folder every time I send out a quote.
Thanks for your help!

Changing default application for Pages and Word docs?

I wasn't sure if this was the right place to ask this...
I just got a new computer, running Tiger. I own older copies of Word (which I hate) and iWork (which I love). When I copied my data to my new computer, all my documents defaulted to opening in the new versions of those programs. Furthermore, it won't let me change the program that opens those type of documents.
I open the information on a document, tell it to open in Pages 1.0, and that works fine. But if I try to tell it to "Change All", it just reverts to Pages 2.0. The exact same thing happens when I try to tell Word docs to open in my old version of Word, or with Keynote. I can open my files just fine within the program, but it's getting really, really irritating not to be able to open documents by double clicking.
Any advice? I can't afford to buy the new programs, even if I wanted them (which I don't, in the case of Word).

Julia,
Try Resetting Launch Services, by Dr. Smoke.
;~)

Word 2010 Macros won't run after installing Outlook 2013

Here is something I've never run across before. I'm hoping someone here knows the answer...
One of my co-workers has Office 2010 Professional installed and has for a year or more been running Word 2010 using a macro that opens a form for additional user input for the document.
For some reason that I cannot understand at all, he loaded Outlook 2013 and Lync. After doing this, his Word document will open but he cannot get the macro to execute the command button in the document. The macro does not fire, so to speak.
We have checked the Trust Center and the macro settings are at the lowest level. Still not working!
I have tried to simulate this by installing Word 2010 on my workstation where I have a full copy of Office 2013 Professional installed. Interestingly enough, similar results occur. I get a security warning that even though my Word 2010 instance
has macro security set to low, strips out the macro altogether.
I'm not all that interested in finding my problem but would like to get some advice on why he is having the problems after just adding Outlook 2013 and Lync. They may be related .
Thanks for any assistance.
Robert Stroud

Repair did not seem to have any affect on the problem.
So a bit of clarification - client has 2010 Office Professional including all of the normal packages. His company updated their machines to Outlook 2013 but did not touch any of the other 2010 packages except Outlook. They also added Lync.
I can duplicate the problem using a 2013 installation of Office Professional and then adding Word 2010 via another installation of Office 2010. Word 2010 was the only package from 2010 that I installed.
I have repaired the 2010 installation from the Control Panel. The Repair Utility does not seem to do anything except force the default .docm to show the Word 2010 icon rather than the 2013 icon.
If I open my .docm file with Word 2010, I get macro warnings even though the Macro Security is set to enable all macros.
If I open my .docm in Word 2013, the file executes properly and the macro runs as it should.
What is it that happens when one or more 2013 packages are installed that breaks the 2010 package macros?
Robert Stroud

Cannot change Printer Properties in Word 2010 with J6480. Properties revert to default setting

When I attempt to change Printer Properties in Word 2010, they simply revert back to the default setting. I am unable to use the Printer Properties within the Word 2010. If the default is grayscale, that is all the printer will print unless I change the default setup in the Control Panel. It appears to be an incompatibility with Office 2010 software as other programs allow the change of Printer properties.

I have the exact identical problem. Brand new printer (HP PhotoSmart C4780) on a brand new PC (Windows 7). I cannot access the printer properties dialog box when the PDF file has been opened in an embedded Adobe Viewer window in Internet Explorer.
When I select [Print] from Word or Adobe Viewer, or anywhere else, I can then press the [Properties] button and it opens the printer properties just fine.
But if I open a PDF document through Internet Explorer, clicking on that [Properties] button doesn't do anything. No error or anything. If I press the [Save] in the Adobe Acrobet-embedded Internet Explorer window, it too does nothing. This leads me to think it is an Adobe Acrobat issue. However, I have found nothing in their support forums on this topic.
Does anyone out there have any ideas?
Scott

CHANGE DEFAULT OPEN APPLICATION FROM WORD 2010 TO WORD 2013

Hi,
I have both Word 2010 and Word 2013 installed but when I open any documents in the client on SharePoint, it automatically opens in Word 2010 rather than 2013. How can I change this to open in the newest version of Word?
Thanks

Technically, another forum :) Go to Control Panel -> Default Programs -> Set your Default Programs. Find Word 2013 in the list, and then select it as default.
Trevor Seward
Follow or contact me at...
&nbsp&nbsp
This post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or view of Microsoft, its employees, or other MVPs.

The appearence of tables in some Word 2010 documents changes after KB2880529

I wanted to alert you that, since our company has applied
KB2880529, some users are reporting Word 2010 documents (docx) having their appearence changed.
More precisely, the issue concern the table inserted in the Word document : They are all messed up. For exemple, the begining of the table can look ok, then a few lines of the table are
badly miss aligned (like moved 2 cm to the right), then you've got a few normal lines, then again several bads, and so on.
Also, some of the cells, that were in the last column of the table, may appear half outside of the table.
And the worse part is that, even if you take some time to manualy fix the table, when you save the document and re-open it, everything is bad again, and exactly as it was before... so basicaly
the save doesn't work for the tables (it work if you change some text in the table, but not for the table itself (size of the columns, location of the columns, so on)).
I can't profite any file because they are of a very sensitive nature and can't leave our company, even if I remove most of the content, our IT security doesn't allow it.
Anyway :
- we are absolutly sure it's
KB2880529 that does that because when we uninstall the KB, and re-open the document, it look normal again.
- it seems to concern only documents that were created using some old Word 2003 templates some time ago, and then opened in Word 2010. As far as I know it doesn't happens on 100% Word 2010
documents.
So, we are currently doing a package installed by SCCM 2012 in order to uninstall it on all the PC which received it a few days ago.
Let's hope you'll correct that issue... and if possible that, in a near futur, you'll had a feature in SCCM 2012 to allow us to unintall KBs, like it was possible with WSUS.

I'm sure there are some ways to fix the files one by one. Indeed, our tests indicate that it's possible, for exemple, to open them in "LibreOffice 4.2" (a fork of OpenOffice), which displays them correctly, and then save the file in .doc and then use
Office 2010 to open this .doc and save it in .docx.
But what I've forget to indicate is that the issue touch probably thousands of documents that have been placed in a "document management application" (I'm not sure how to correctly translate) over the years, documents that may be hundreds of users need to
look at, for reference, from time to time... but basicaly the documents are "frozen" / archived, they must not be edited by anybody.
I very much doubt you can expect MS to not apply updates, including via the next Service Pack, just because some tables in some of your documents are corrupt. Besides which, the same problem will quite likely resurface when you next upgrade to a newer version
of Office. Ultimately, someone is going to have to check out all the documents with tables and verify their content. The scope of that project might be narrowed down after you've checked a few documents and found some common features between those with the
corrupt tables. It's easy enough to write a macro to test the files to see which ones have tables. That can serve as the first step in narrowing the scope of the project. It's also possible have the macro that repairs the files restore their
original time/date stamps if that's important.
An entirely different approach would be to temporarily uninstall the update on one PC. Then use that PC to convert all the documents to PDF. Then use the PDFs in the "document management application". Since the documents "must not be edited by anybody" the
PDF format is inherently more secure in that regard and can have security attributes set to prevent printing and/or content copying. The PDF format is also impervious to Word's tendency to change document layouts whenever you do little things like updating
printers or changing between doc & docx formats.
Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

I have changed default language in the program & have set Language & region in system preferences. My Word (Mac2011) keeps on changing the default language to US english every time I check. Please help!

I have changed default language in the program & have set Language & region in system preferences. My Word (Mac2011) keeps on changing the default language to US english every time I check. Please help!

If you're having trouble making changes to files that are inside your home folder (represented by a house icon in the sidebar of a Finder window), or if you can't get changes to the settings of an application to stick, then please see below.
Back up all data.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, they may not work as described.
Step 1
If you have more than one user, and the one in question is not an administrator, then go to Step 2.
Triple-click anywhere in the following line on this page to select it:
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR..; sudo chown -R $UID:staff ~ $_; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_; chmod -R -N ~ $_; } 2>&-
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
You'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command may take a few minutes to run, or perhaps longer if you have literally millions of files in your home folder. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign ($) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Take this step only if you have trouble with Step 1, if you prefer not to take it, or if it doesn't solve the problem.
Boot into Recovery. When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar. A Terminal window will open.
In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password dialog will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
In the dialog, select the startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if it's not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if it's not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

[Access 2010] Change default formats for data types

Whenever I import data, the default format for Boolean data types is "-1,0." I know how to subsequently change this format to "Yes/No," but I'd like to change the default
setting to "Yes/No." Is this possible?
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I found you post the same question in other place and got the advice. I agree with Mr. Kees suggestion. The data type is a build-in default setting with Access, we can't change it. We may try the workaround via VBA to test.
http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6129_102-627633/access-2010-change-default-formats-for-data-types/#message5617496
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Have a good time.
Regards,
George Zhao
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

How do I change default tab from .5 to .25 in word 2008 for mac?

Mountain Lion
How do I change default tab from .5 to .25 in word 2008 for mac?
Thanks
Message was edited by: Rafael Montserrat1
Thanks, Rafael

They haven't been checked as Solved, it's an option for you to choose one if the answer has solved your problem. You can mark one answer as Solved, and two as helpful. Only you, as the originator of the topic, can see these buttons.
Sorry for the goofed answer. Most people are looking to set the margins and I looked over that you were interested in the tabs.
To save tabs in fixed positions that will appear with every new document, you must modify the default template. You can't open the template from the desktop. If you do, it will open as a standard document. You must open it from the Open dialogue box from within Word. With Word in the foreground, press Command+O and navigate to:
/Users/your_account/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/
Open the file Normal.dotm
Set your tabs and save the file. Close the template. All new documents will now open with those preset tabs.

Font color against dark font backgrounds changing to white in Word 2010

Hello. I am a long-time Word and VBA user and have been experiencing a problem with Word 2010 wherein font colors against a dark font background color always appear, and print, as if they had been set to white. By contrast, Word 2007 would retain
whatever font color was set for each character (whether through the standard user interface or VBA). Has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a fix for it? Thanks.

Thanks for your response, Eugene.
It's x86.
I actually had set up an image of a comparison of Word 2007 vs. Word 2010, but when I've tried to include it here, a message comes up that says "Body text cannot contain images or links until we are able to verify your account."
I had previously been warned that I needed to provide a phone message to "verify" my account. I don't like giving out my phone number when it's not relevant to what I'm doing. I'll explore to see if there are other options where I don't have
to provide private information in order to be able to post images in my messages in this forum. (I'm not up to any harm here!) I do think the image that I set up would be very helpful to share; it shows clearly the difference in how Word 2007 vs.
Word 2010 treat font/text color against dark font/text backgrounds.

Track Moves not working in Word 2010

Moved text shows as a deletion and an insertion, not a move.
Word is not running in compatibility mode.
I have deleted Normal.dotm and restarted Word.
Occurs in previously saved documents and newly formed.

Hi
Did you get the following view?
To get a better view on Move tracking, we will need to check the option: Show revisions on ballons.
For detailed information refer to the following link:
http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-word/archive/2006/10/13/nice-move-move-tracking-in-word-2007.aspx
Tylor Wang
TechNet Community Support

Adding a merge field to an email hyperlink in a word 2010 email mailmerge

I am using word 2010, excel 2010, and outlook 2010 to send out the following email with email mailmerge to 50 + people.
The highlighted names in the greeting are two merge fields - First_Name and Last_Name.
The hyperlink is an email hyperlink to the following email message:
Will you attend? ___ Yes ___ No
The hyperlink is as follows:
I would like to place the merge First_Name Last_Name in the hyperlink to sign the RSVP email back to me. I have tried many modifications of the hyperlink code and nothing works consistently. It will place one name as the signer but will not pick up
the following names the merge fields.
I would like the final email hyperlink to look like this:
Will you attend? ___ Yes ___ No
Jody Smith
Can anyone tell me how to add the First_Name Last_Name to the hyperlink email so that each ricipient's name from the original email will appear in the hyperlink email as shown
above?
Thanks!
Ben

Hi All,
To help other community members who may have similar problem, I quote Peter Jamieson's answer here:
(Edited a little...)
I can get this to work here, but there are some things you need to pay attention to when merging to HTML email (rather than to new documents etc.).
The Hyperlink field code I start with is as follows:
{ HYPERLINK }
Insert that using ctrl-F9 to insert the special field brace pair { }, insert the Word HYPERLINK, then select the field and update it using F9.
View the field code results (press Alt-F9 if necessary). In the English language version of Word you should see
Error! Hyperlink reference not valid.
Important point number 1:
Do not update the result of this HYPERLINK field again (i.e. don't select it and press F9). If you do, every email will always show the same link text. As
far as I can remember, this behaviour is different when you merge to a document rather than email, or perhaps merge to attachments. This can be a problem if you need to update other fields in your email, or if the email is being used by other people who might
(for whatever reason) update the HYPERLINK field
Now modify the display text.
Use the Arrow keys to move the insertion point so it is between the "E" and the "r" in the Word "Error", and type
Click here to RSVP!
Then you can select and delete the "E", and the "rror! Hyperlink reference not valid."
Select the text and apply the Hyperlink style to it (Home tab of the Ribbon->Styles).
When you toggle field code display using alt-F9, you should see the original field
{ HYPERLINK }
Now click after the K of HYPERLINK and insert the following fields and text (or copy them from somewhere else):
"{ SET x 1 }mailto:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***?subject=July%20Wine%20and%20Spine%20&body=%20Will%20you%20attend?%20%20%20___%20Yes%20%20%20___%20No%0A%20%0a%2{
MERGEFIELD First_Name%20{MERGEFIELD Last_Name }"
so that your field now looks like
{ HYPERLINK "{ SET x 1 }mailto:*** Email address is removed for privacy ***?subject=July%20Wine%20and%20Spine%20&body=%20Will%20you%20attend?%20%20%20___%20Yes%20%20%20___%20No%0A%20%0a%2{
MERGEFIELD First_Name%20{MERGEFIELD Last_Name }" }
As usual, all the {} need to be the special field code brace pairs that you can enter using ctrl-F9 on WIndows Word.
At this point, experienced field users will have to resist the temptation to select the fields and update them. Dont do it!
Save the document.
Test the email merge. At this point, I would hope to see the results you want.
If not, I do not know why this works OK on my system but not yours.
Important point number 2 You may be wondering why
there is a { SET x 1 } field inside the HYPERLINK code. It's because when you are working with a .docx, if you save, close and reopen your document, you may find that Word has resolved all the merge fields nested inside your HYPERLINK field (i.e. replaced
the field codes by their results). This behaviour can appear arbitrary, and the reason that (for some reason), Word does not resolve the nested fields if there is a Word bookmark inside the HYPERLINK field. Now if the insertion point or selection ws inside
the HYPERLINK field when you save/close the document, there will be a bookmark in there, because Word inserts a bookmark called _GoBack, which enables the user to go back to the previous selection. But if you click outside the HYPERLINK field before you save,
there wil be no such bookmark and Word will resolve your field codes. So we put the { SET x 1 } in there to ensure that there is a bookmark (in this case, called X) to prevent that from happening.
Alternatively, if you save as .doc format (not recommended these days if you can avoid it) Word does not resolve these fields and you don't need the { SET } field.
And that's it. Whether that will be enough for your Merge to work as you hope, I cannot be sure, but all I can say is that without doing those 2 things, it almost certainly
won't.
[[I originally had a third thing. I actually now think it's incorrect, but I'm going to leave it here just in case.
Important point number 3: If it does not work, there is
at least one other thing that could be wrong, although I think it is highly unlikely. There is a Windows registry setting called FieldCalcSecurityLevel, which was introduced about 12 years ago when Microsoft made some security-related changes to the behaviour
of certain types of field. I'm not going to step through how to look for that, but for example, in my registry, for Word 2010, it is at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Word\Options
It may be elsewhere.
If you cannot find that Option, or it is there and is set to the default value (1), then something else is wrong and I do not know what it is. However, if it is set to 0 (which
makes Word use its original behaviour, you will have to set it to 1 to get this to work.
Thanks for your understanding.
Steve Fan
TechNet Community Support

PDF From MS Word 2010 Reported Bug Still Exists

I need to create a PDF file today that contains images in a MS Word 2010 document. There is a bug in Acrobat XI Professional that I reported months ago. This bug is still here, and now I need help. Can anyone tell me what I can do to fix this issue?
Here is what happens, and I just reproduced this problem I found awhile back. As I stated, I did report it, but this issue is still here!
I am creating a user guide for software. I insert BMP images that are screen shots. On any page where a BMP image exists within Word, the resulting PDF document does not allow selecting of text in Acrobat Reader XI. The selection goes totally insane and highlights random text through the entire page. This is a software defect for certain.
My question is can I easily fix this with minimal time? I had to fix this last time by removing all images from MS Word and instead pasting the image in Acrobat XI. When I do this, selecting text works. The problem with this bug work-around is that this take lots of time (that I do not have).
Help please???

I found something even better. There is a non Adobe PDF creator on my office computer that correctly creates a PDF. The issue is within PDF creation, because I am using Acrobat Reader XI and selecting text with no problem at all.
I did not have to change a thing other than not use Adobe Acrobat Professional to create the PDF. The software that works correctly where Adobe's own fails is called PDF Xchange Driver by Tracker Software Products LTD.
...and as I already stated, I reported this issue many months ago...

Change default to Final tracking in word 2010

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for