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Frustrated

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Jun 5, 2008, 8:30:00 PM6/5/08
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We have numerous documents that are edited by several people, all documents
have the edit tracker active. All the people appear to be using the same
colour to track these edits making it dificult to determine who is changing
what.

My questions is that how can I search for a particular user who has edited
this document, bearing in mind that some documents are several hundred pages
in size

Bob Buckland ?:-) At Beautiful Downtown

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Jun 6, 2008, 8:16:11 AM6/6/08
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The color choices are those of the person viewing the document. You can set the 'by author' color attribute.

In Word 2007 use
Review Tab=>Tracking Group=>Track Changes=>Change Tracking Option
In Word 2003 use
Tools=>Track Changes and Show=>Options from the Reviewing toolbar

Word marks the revisions using a hidden 'mailto:(reviewername)' link in the document. I don't recall that you can search or walk
through changes by a specific reviewer/author name within a combined, multi-author document without using a macro.

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grammatim

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Jun 6, 2008, 9:40:35 AM6/6/08
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What if you set "Show" to show only one of the reviewers at a time,
and then use the Next Change arrow?

On Jun 6, 8:16 am, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful


Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote:
> The color choices are those of the person viewing the document. You can set the 'by author' color attribute.
>
> In Word 2007 use
>   Review Tab=>Tracking Group=>Track Changes=>Change Tracking Option
> In Word 2003 use
>   Tools=>Track Changes and  Show=>Options from the Reviewing toolbar
>
> Word marks the revisions using a hidden 'mailto:(reviewername)' link in the document.  I don't recall that you can search or walk
> through changes by a specific reviewer/author name within a combined, multi-author document without using a macro.
>
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>   <<"Frustrated" <Frustra...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in messagenews:C3D6B003-AB32-41C6...@microsoft.com...

Bob Buckland ?:-) At Beautiful Downtown

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Jun 7, 2008, 8:19:05 PM6/7/08
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Hi grammatim,

Yep :) That would work. Thank you for catching that.

In rereading the original question it's not clear if the goal is to search the changes, or to see if a particular person has made
changes, but
(Word 2007) Review Tab=>Show Markup=>Reviewers
(Word 2003) Tools=>Track Changes then
Show=>Reviewers on the Track Changes Toolbar
should work. It was the 'how to search' I was focused on too much :)

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What if you set "Show" to show only one of the reviewers at a time,
and then use the Next Change arrow? >>

grammatim

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Jun 8, 2008, 1:34:32 AM6/8/08
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I only recently discovered that the Customize Toolbars device has
separate buttons for "Next Change" and "Next Comment" -- much more
useful than the out-of-the-box button that gives "Next Change or
Comment." ("Previous" too, of course.)

On Jun 7, 8:19 pm, "Bob Buckland ?:-\)" <75214.226(At Beautiful


Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote:
> Hi grammatim,
>
> Yep :)   That would work.  Thank you for catching that.
>
> In rereading the original question it's not clear if the goal is to search the changes, or to see if a particular person has made
> changes, but
>  (Word 2007)  Review Tab=>Show Markup=>Reviewers
>  (Word 2003) Tools=>Track Changes then
>    Show=>Reviewers on the Track Changes Toolbar
> should work.  It was the 'how to search' I was focused on too much :)
>
> ==============

>   <<"grammatim" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote in messagenews:5f00b6ba-9a47-4998...@z66g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

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