Word 2007 Irritant
By default (out of the box), Word 2007 uses unwieldy balloons to display deletions, comments, formatting changes, and content that has moved. I think this is confusing for insertions, deletions, and moves AND counter intuitive for law firms who have been using redlining for the last 1000 years. Even as an advanced user… I had to use Help to figure out what Microsoft was trying to do. [Ok... I think that makes me non-advanced user. That's why Judye Carter Reynolds is our Microsoft Office sage.]

I would advise turning them off for your users, and then “training” to show them the benefits and when to use them. You may need to read Microsoft’s help and google “using microsoft word track changes.” Now I get it… I thought they were kinda cool for some types of collaboration.

By the way, iRedline v7 allows you to save, in an iRedline scheme, whether you want balloons or not for your result documents… and it’s document specific, and will not affect the user’s default track change options for other documents.

Last Modified : May 25th, 2010 Filed under : Document Comparison, General Navigate : Previous post / Next post