

I hope this is doable, and I thank in advance any who can show me how to make an appropriate script. I technically have an incomplete script (a few of them), all failures, so I don’t think it would be worth much for me to post it. (I could always delete the "^"s later with tracked changes turned off.) Maybe that could be its own script, maybe part of a combined script. I also realized that inserting a “^” or other symbol where tracked changes show text has been removed would also be a good script.

Or maybe accepting all changes in the hilighted portion of the text could be part of the script. Use Keyboard Shortcut If you are looking for a shortcut, you can hold down the ‘Control’, ‘Shift’ and ‘E’ button on your keyboard this will automatically enable (and disable) Track Changes on Microsoft Word. I don’t mean displaying it as bold, but actually a change to the text itself) so that after I choose “accept all changes” the text is left bold. What I want is a script that makes all the revised text in a document in a file bold (or better still make only the Tracked Changes in text that I am currently hilighting). And to be able to tell the difference between the two. Word for the Mac has the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Shift+E to toggle tracked changes. The way I revise my files (on screen, obviously) and have other people look them over (printed out rather than on screen), I use “Tracked Changes.” But it would be very helpful to see the previous round of Tracked Changes even as the current round of changes is being made. I’m not skilled at programming, but I have a need for an AppleScript for Word 2008, and after trying a bit I’m lost.
