Re: Provide user chosen features to override microsoft chosen feature.

From: Suzanne S. Barnhill (sbarnhill_at_mvps.org)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:17:40 -0600

Documents do not usually open in this view unless (a) they contain markup or
(b) someone has sent you the document "for review." For the latter, see
“Review Toolbar Annoyance” at
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=221. For the
former, you can disable the option to "Make hidden markup visible on open or
save" on the Security tab of Tools | Options, but keep in mind that there's
a reason it's on the Security tab: it's to protect you from the
embarrassment (or even legal liability) of inadvertently sending out a
document containing comments or tracked changes. 

-- 
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"movingtoopenofficesoon" <movingtoopenofficesoon@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message news:8ED5E7B7-F5EA-48A1-9E84-7D6FCF66ECC8@microsoft.com...
> It would be greatly appreciated if it were easier to change or disable
those
> features that microsoft seems to think users need when they are, in fact,
a
> nuisance. Of prime concern is the Review feature that opens up with "Final
> Showing Markup." This may be a wonderful thing for teachers and those who
> spend their entire existence reviewing the work of others; it is a pain in
> the *** for those whose lot is production, research, and writing without
> reviewers who make use of that feature.
> You could take a lesson from Adobe Acrobat who puts a box allowing the
user
> to check or remove the check for the feature (e.g. help) to be displayed
on
> startup.
> One of the most echoed complaints I have heard over the last 15+ years is
> about software companies that believe they know what users want and need
and
> fill programs with unneeded and uncontrollable features.