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From: lhf113 on 25 Mar 2010 08:33
I have the EXACT same issue. I want the document to default to Final form,
and if I want to see the changes, I can hit "final showing markup" or
whatever it is called. I am very disappointed that the answer was "you
can't."

"Steve W" wrote:

> I want multiple users to be able to see the changes in a document if they
> want to, but to have the default view be final. But when I save the document
> after working on it and then open it again, it always opens in display track
> changes mode and confuses some users not familiar with track changes. (The
> document was originally created in Word 2003.) How can I make the default
> view final when it opens?
From: Peter T. Daniels on 25 Mar 2010 10:20
Did you look at Jay Freedman's posting in this thread? He points you
to the instructions for doing this very unwise thing.

On Mar 25, 8:33 am, lhf113 <lhf...(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I have the EXACT same issue.  I want the document to default to Final form,
> and if I want to see the changes, I can hit "final showing markup" or
> whatever it is called.  I am very disappointed that the answer was "you
> can't."  
>
>
>
> "Steve W" wrote:
> > I want multiple users to be able to see the changes in a document if they
> > want to, but to have the default view be final. But when I save the document
> > after working on it and then open it again, it always opens in display track
> > changes mode and confuses some users not familiar with track changes. (The
> > document was originally created in Word 2003.) How can I make the default
> > view final when it opens?-
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