google.com generated HTML page: Tip - Tracked Changes in Microsoft Word 2003
Someone had a resumé in Word format the other day and wanted to create a PDF file out of it. We tried the create PDF button in Word, we tried the standard File > Print to Adobe PDF method. Neither worked. As soon as the process starts, it just hangs and never gets completed.
The user knew enough to show me that the document contained a lot of comments and other tracked changes. As a result, we decided to try and recreate the document and strip out all the excess content. The copy and paste method only brought the same content over in a new Word file. We wanted to try to resave the original document as a RTF (rich text format), which would also strip it of all but necessary content. That produced the same result as attempting to create the PDF file. It just hung.
From the link above, we learned could accept all the changes. We didn't want to reject because it would undo the most recent changes, which was what we wanted to keep. After accepting all the changes, all the commenting went away and we were finally able to save the file as a RTF to strip it of all the extraneous content. Success!
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