Desperately need help on Word Red-Line

[Mischka]

Does anyone know anything about Word 2002 and red-lining? An author sent me a red-lined version of an article, and I can't make heads or tails out of it. I know a plethora of computer geeks, but they only know the nuts & bolts stuff, not the actual applications.

Please pelase someone help me.

 

[HeavyStick]

a red lined document, by Microsoft's definition is the editing that is done on the document.

wanna rephrase the question or pm me the document and I'll take a look

 

[Mischka]

I probably should explain my problem. I edited an article, and sent a red-lined version to the author. She made massive changes, including adding and deleting footnotes. When she did this, some of the footnotes "disappeared." She said she "noted their absence where they would have appeared in the footnotes and highlighted it in yellow." My problem is, I can't find the highlights. It's not in the red-line off to the right of the document.

At one point, I switched on some box at the bottom of the page, and the yellow highlighted text appeared. I can't figure out how to get back to that box.

 

[HeavyStick]

maybe she changed the macro setup....(I'm not real familiar with that area). We have to have footnotes at my work and I hear people cussing about that all the time.

try Microsoft's forums, lots of talk in there about everything. Hope you have time to go through them all though.

Did you try the help feature in word?

 

[Shy Tall Guy]

At one point, I switched on some box at the bottom of the page, and the yellow highlighted text appeared. I can't figure out how to get back to that box.

I think what you may be dealing with here is revisions and annotations. I don't have the latest version of word, but hopefully they haven't moved sutff around too much. In my version, if I want to see revisions made by other people, etc., I can go to the "Tools" menu and select "revisions".

In that popup you can do all kinds of stuff, including showing revisions in the document.

If you go to "Options" in that popup, you will be given all kinds of other options about making things visible.


Hope this helps.

 

[Mischka]

Sorry about my panic mode. I clicked desperately around the document, and that box reappeared. I've been clicking around the stuff you mentioned, STG, so maybe I followed your advice.

OK, everyone go back to fun and frolicking. I'm off to re-edit this article.

 

[Juspar Emvan]

The highlights were where she went through with a virtual highlighter and pointed out a few things. You can turn this option on and off, you must ahve had it off so you didn't see them, and found the right button to turn them back on. It is not related to editing/revising a document.