I created a Word 2016 document, sent that to person X who made edits to it in such a way to those edits would show up if I went to Review Tab --> "Simple Markup" or "All Markup."
I wasn't familiar with how those would work so after receiving the file from X, I edited directly to the documents without "Accept" or "Reject" the changes. Now, even if "Simple Markup" or "All Markup" is chosen, the changes look very confusing to me so I neither want to "Accept" or "Reject" any of the claim for fear of messing up the version I now have.
I like the document as it appears when I choose "No Markup". How do I create a Word file of this document so that the next person how opens it won't see all the past changes or those pesky left-side vertical bars that show up by default (until "No Markup" is selected)?
31 Answer
To clean up completely a Word document that was worked upon by several people and now contains changes and comments :
In the Review tab : Click the arrow beneath Accept and choose Accept All Changes and Stop Tracking
In the Comments group : Click the drop-down arrow to the right of Delete and select Delete All Comments in Document.
This will finalize the document with a clean slate.
