Disable "Track Changes" for Headers & Footers? in Word General Questions    |   |  Help   Search For:     In:   Office   Word     Word General Questions     Word New Users     Word Application Errors     Word Drawing and Graphics     Word Mailmerge and Fax     Word Page Layout     Word Programming     Word Tables              Frank Boyne  3/3/2005 5:59 PM PST   Question   Something I've always wanted to be able to do (but never managed to figure out) is to turn off "Track Changes" for specific areas of a Word document, particularly the Header and Footer. With lots of automatically updated fields in the header and footer (Page # of #, file name, date last saved etc) the balloons for all the changes resulting from the header and footer being automatically updated can swamp the "real" changes I'm trying to track.     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Cindy M  -WordMVP- 3/17/2005 5:13 AM PST   Answer   Hi =?Utf-8?B?RnJhbmsgQm95bmU=?=, There is no way to tell Word to track changes in specific places in a document, only. But what you could do for this particular problem is to select the content of the header/footer, then LOCK the fields from updating (Ctrl+F11). You'll want to unlock the fields again, of course, before printing: select the text, then Ctrl+Shift+F11 > Something I've always wanted to be able to do (but never managed to figure > out) is to turn off "Track Changes" for specific areas of a Word document, > particularly the Header and Footer. > > With lots of automatically updated fields in the header and footer (Page # > of #, file name, date last saved etc) the balloons for all the changes > resulting from the header and footer being automatically updated can swamp > the "real" changes I'm trying to track. > Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Frank Boyne  3/17/2005 9:21 AM PST   "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: > But what you could do for this particular problem is to > select the content of the header/footer, then LOCK the fields from updating > (Ctrl+F11). You'll want to unlock the fields again, of course, before > printing: select the text, then Ctrl+Shift+F11 Thanks for the suggestion. Many of the header and footer fields in our template are maintained via a set of macros, so your suggestion should be easy to automate for those fields. We'd still get change balloons for page # of # type fields when we printed unless we accepted those field update changes. Maybe we can come up with a macro to do that too.     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Cindy M  -WordMVP- 3/19/2005 1:00 PM PST   Answer   Hi =?Utf-8?B?RnJhbmsgQm95bmU=?=, > We'd still get change balloons for page # of # type fields when we printed > unless we accepted those field update changes. Maybe we can come up with a > macro to do that too. > How about turning off the change tracking (but keep the "with markup" display) just before printing? If you lock these fields while editing, then only allow them to update at printing, that should solve the problem... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top           Frank Boyne  3/21/2005 10:40 AM PST   "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: > How about turning off the change tracking (but keep the "with markup" display) > just before printing? If you lock these fields while editing, then only allow > them to update at printing, that should solve the problem... That sounds great. Thanks very much (again).     Was this post helpful to you?         Reply |   Top         Return to Microsoft Communities   Notify me of replies