She said to me: “Why did you send me a version still showing all the tracked changes? I thought you were sending out a clean copy?” ![]() saved it… and sent the ‘clean copy’ to my collaborating colleagues - one of which was just down the hall. Just the other day I finished collaborating on a Word document… accepted all changes…. ![]() By way of further security, we can use a metadata removal tool (such as Payne Consulting’s Metadata Assistant) or by converting the Word document to a PDF. Speaking for myself, the way that I usually do this is by clicking on ‘accept all changes’ – and then saving the document – thinking that this turned off track changes and revered the document to an ordinary Word document. ![]() Once that process is over, the typical next step is to agree to the changes in the document to produce a non-red-lined version ( or ‘clean copy’) as it is known. Most of us use “Track Changes” in Microsoft Word when working on a document to note the changes/additions/deletions done by others. Lawyers today are concerned about metadata and not transmitting same to another lawyer or their own client when they electronically send a document. Lyrics by Francis Scott Key (who was a lawyer), music by John Stafford Smith. ![]() ♫ Oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light…♫
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