For this week’s Roundup: several reasons you might not want to employ Microsoft Word’s Track Changes feature the next time you redline a document, getting under the hood with Word Options (even if you’re not a techie), another way to save Outlook email as a pdf (in case you want to take it with you on your iPad or other mobile device), and one possible reason your line spacing changes won’t stick in Word.
Read MoreIf you send documents out for review electronically, this guest post I’ve done over at Attorney at Work is a must-read. It’s a checklist of actions you need to make sure you’ve taken prior to attaching a document to an email and hitting the “Send” button. Before you start that next round of revisions, read through this and familiarize yourself with Microsoft Word’s security settings designed to combat potentially compromising metadata.
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Read MoreOnce you’ve produced a redlined document with Word’s Track Changes feature, you can finalize the document with the Accept and Reject buttons on the toolbar. Here’s how.
Read MoreWhat if you (or your attorney) don’t want to actually change a particular section of a document, but just want to ask a question, point out a problem, just plain make a comment? Here’s a tutorial on how to insert a comment using Word’s Track Changes feature.
Read MoreOnce you know how to turn on Word’s Track Changes feature, you may want to be able to see the document in its original state and with all the changes without having to accept or reject changes. Here’s an easy way to do that (with some caveats)
Read MoreEver want to be able to automatically create a redline showing your document changes? You can, with Word’s Track Changes feature. Here are the basics.
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The case of the shrunken comment balloon
by The Guru on October 18, 2011
Ever had one of your comment balloons in Microsoft Word suddenly shrink without warning and become unreadable? Admittedly, it’s a pretty obscure problem, but if it ever happens to you, you want to make note of this fix.
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