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Hide Word Track Changes before converting to PDF

Community Beginner ,
Dec 19, 2015 Dec 19, 2015

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I have marked my Word document as Final before saving.  But when I convert the document to a pdf the comments and corrections in Track Changes still show up in the new pdf version.

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Community Beginner , Dec 25, 2015 Dec 25, 2015

I figured it out. The Track Changes icon must be un-highlighted to turn

off the TC.

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Dec 19, 2015 Dec 19, 2015

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How did you convert the Word file to PDF, exactly?

Do you have Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader?

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 20, 2015 Dec 20, 2015

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I have Adobe Reader.  I used the Adobe on-line capability for converting Word documents to pdf. After logging in I just selected the Word file for converting

hit convert to pdf and then viewed the document after the conversion and saw that my Track Changes comments and corrections were shown in the pdf.  Prior to selecting the Word document for conversion I had marked it as "Final" in the Track Changes drop-down menu.  The mark--ups in the document disappeared but upon converting to pdf they showed up again.  I am hoping not to have to re-type the document in its entirety prior to converting it to a pdf.  Thanks, be

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Community Beginner ,
Dec 25, 2015 Dec 25, 2015

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I figured it out. The Track Changes icon must be un-highlighted to turn

off the TC.

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Jan 02, 2019 Jan 02, 2019

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please try to "save as" in your word file, and then choose "PDF" in "Save as Type", Choose Option, and Choose Document (not Document showing markup) in "Publish what"

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Nov 30, 2021 Nov 30, 2021

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This did not work for me. Still trying to figure it out. Attempting to combine multiple files.

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