Tip of the day: If you're writing, say, historical fiction, and having someone with, say, greater historical knowledge than you go through the document and note points where your novel is inaccurate--it's a good idea to make sure that all of these comments don't show up in Tracked Changes when you send your manuscript to an agent.
To avoid this embarrassment, read this little article on deleting tracked changes.
Yes. You really do have to do this, or--even if you can't see them--the next reader might.
Cheers!,
GK
5 comments:
If you don't want any changes in the document don't you just click 'reject all changes', and then turn track changes off?
I'm not sure. That may work in some versions of Word.
I've certainly known people who simply went "View"--then un-clicked "Mark-up"--didn't see any more changes--and then sent the document.
And then the comments mysteriously reappeared.
Sneaky little buggers.
Another option -- which requires a bit more organization, perhaps -- is to keep a single "clean" copy of the manuscript and one or more "commented" copies with feedback from other people. It is slightly more work, but it also has the advantage of allowing you to have the best of both worlds -- keeping a record of the comments for later reference, while still maintaining a single submission copy of the file. I have found storing these in separate, appropriately titled folders to help keep them all sorted out and make sure I do not send out a copy covered in suggested changes.
Another good suggestion.
Really, I don't care what you do. Just don't send me your tracked changes, or I will cringe *for* you.
Oooh, ouch. Having mistakes is bad enough....having them highlighted for all to see is just painful. I'm with Jacob--I maintain an updated clean copy at all times (in multiple places, in case the tiny PacMen in my computer decide to eat my documents).
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