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Save the document, with marks, under a new name. Open that doc with the new
name, set up revision marking, and then those the command to compare
versions. If revision marks are on in the new document, then everything in
that document that differs from the original will be marked as revised when
you do the comparison. You will also now have a copy of the original and the
edited copy.
I would also suggest that whether you are expected to use revision marks or
not, you ought to always save a copy of the original document.
-----Original Message-----
On Behalf Of Doug
Grossman
Say, for example, that you are editing one of the worst-written documents
you have ever seen. Because you are seen as the expert in writing within
your company, it is your standard practice *not* to use revision marking
when editing your Word documents. I know that this is an enviable position
to be in, but that's the way it is here, in general. The people on my team
are the final arbiters of what is right and what is wrong, from a strict
writing aspect.
Back to the situation at hand: You are halfway through editing this horrible
document, and are not using revision marking. At this point, you realize
that you might want to show somebody exactly how horrible the document was
before you had your shot at it. The good news is that 1) you haven't saved
your changes to the doc (maybe that's dumb, but it happens to be the case),
and 2) you have an infinite number of "undo"s available to you. Alas, if
you "undo" all the way back to the beginning of the document, turn revision
marking on, and then "redo" everything, your changes don't show up in
revision marking. Only new changes show up.
Is there a way to re-capture all the changes you've made so that they show
up in revision marking mode?
Time is of the essence here, as I will soon have to save the document at the
end of my workday (thereby losing all of those fabulous "undo"s).
Thanks in advance,
Doug Grossman
Technical Writer, Technical Documentation Team, Professional Services
Program Office
SAS Institute, Rockville, MD
Doug -dot- Grossman -at- SAS -dot- com
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