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Untracking changes: a rare technical tip!

3/29/2006

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Posted by Jon
I’m not that technical. Well, I did start my career in IT, but I’ve made every effort to become less-and-less techie over the years – relying instead on others who do this stuff better.

But a little technical knowledge can go a long way. A Proposal Manager on a course recently bemoaned the fact that readers can un-track the changes on any Microsoft Word document. You can imagine the embarrassment if a client were to do so with your proposal, only to find lower pricing increased at the last moment, a higher-quality solution downgraded for the final version, a sarcastic aside about the quality of the client’s RFP deleted at the last moment.​
No wonder most canny proposal teams default to issuing documents PDF. But the customer does still sometimes insist on a Word copy (perish the thought that they might then copy and paste your text into their own internal reports!).
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The good news is that there is a fix, and I felt very virtuous being able to share it. For those of you who haven’t stumbled across it, it’s downloadable from Microsoft.
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