Hi Roxanne,
Are you saying you encounter the prompt "Do you want to merge
changes?" each time you open various Word documents?
If that is the case then this behavior can be controlled in Outlook.
If you attach an Office document in Outlook 2002 it automatically adds
AdHocReview properties to the document. This triggers the "Do you want
to merge changes?" prompt when you receive the document back and this
causes the Reviewing toolbar to surface on the recipient's end when
they open the document.
For more information and a solution take a look at these articles:
Do you want to Merge Changes?:
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=107
Note the "Update" at the bottom the article which covers deleting the
AdHoc.rcd file. This file used to track the documents you send in
email and can be deleted to prevent the merge prompt for documents you
have already emailed.
Review Toolbar Annoyance
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=221
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Roxanne said:
In this particular environment we do not want to merge revisions to
documents. We want to keep them in a separate document. How do we
escape the annoying question everytime we open a document? For
example, someone emails their changes but we don't want to include
without further discussion and review. In fact, we never want to
merge, thus we would like to eliminate the question altogether.
