Printing comments only?

[A. Scott McCulloch]

Is there any way to print out just a list of comments added to a
document using "track changes?"

Thanks.
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A. Scott McCulloch
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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Hi Scott:

Not easily. You have to assemble the list in AppleScript, then print that.

There is one thing you could "Try". It's nasty but it works: Turn all of
the styles used in the Documents to Font = Hidden except the "Comments"
style.

Then print the document.

Only the Comments style will print :-)

cheers

On 22/3/06 7:28 PM, in article
2006032200282675249-mylists@ascottmccullochcom, "A. Scott McCulloch"
<myl...@ascottmcculloch.com> wrote:

> Is there any way to print out just a list of comments added to a
> document using "track changes?"
>
> Thanks.

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John McGhie <jo...@mcghie.name>
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[A. Scott McCulloch]

Thanks for your reply John.

I decided to try the Font=Hidden approach, and in the process I
stumbled across something else...

If I go to Print the document, then choose "Microsoft Word" from the
pulldown that leads to the different settings areas, then choose "List
of Markup" from the "Print What" pulldown, I then get the list of
comments with names and dates. If I've accepted all changes already,
then only the comments show up, and not the editing.

Thanks,
Scott

On 2006-03-22 01:26:35 -0800, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word
Macintosh]" <jo...@mcghie.name> said:

> Hi Scott:
>
> Not easily. You have to assemble the list in AppleScript, then print that.
>
> There is one thing you could "Try". It's nasty but it works: Turn all of
> the styles used in the Documents to Font = Hidden except the "Comments"
> style.
>
> Then print the document.
>
> Only the Comments style will print :-)
>
> cheers
>
>
> On 22/3/06 7:28 PM, in article
> 2006032200282675249-mylists@ascottmccullochcom, "A. Scott McCulloch"
> <myl...@ascottmcculloch.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to print out just a list of comments added to a
>> document using "track changes?"
>>
>> Thanks.

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A. Scott McCulloch
nospam...@ascottmcculloch.com

[Shawn Larson [MSFT]]

Scott,

You found the suggestion I was going to give you!  As you noted, if you have accepted all changes in the document, then when you choose ‘List of Markup’, only the Comments in the document are printed.  With the current version of Win Word, whatever items are selected off of the ‘Show’ drop down (Comments, Insertions and Deletions, Formatting) of the Reviewing toolbar, only those selected items are included in the print out.  With the current version of Mac Word, all of the mark up items are included with the print out  regardless if they are selected on the Show drop down.  

Hopefully with our next version of Mac Word, we will be sync’ed up with Win Word functionality.  

Shawn Larson
Mac Word Test
Microsoft

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