M$ Word Review Comments Question

Im trying to come up with a way to get a document reviewed by many people all at the same time but then get all the comments together into one master document.

My understanding is that i should be able to get everyone to take a copy of the master document, they would then add review comments to the document using the Insert, Comment option. Once everyone has done this according to the Help i should be able to merge all these documents into one single document.

IT DOESNT WORK!!!

Anyone tried this?


Its Word 2000

[Scarlett]

I think your best bet it to place the doc on a shared drive and password it to allow people to add comments. this should
a) ensure that only those who should be able to edit it can (via a password) and
b) (if it works the same way as excell) will only allow one person to edit it at the same time.

I've never tried to the do what your doing but we had a password protected spreadsheet for logging our time at my old co.

Scarlett

Originally Posted by Scarlett

I think your best bet it to place the doc on a shared drive and password it to allow people to add comments. this should
a) ensure that only those who should be able to edit it can (via a password) and
b) (if it works the same way as excell) will only allow one person to edit it at the same time.

I've never tried to the do what your doing but we had a password protected spreadsheet for logging our time at my old co.

Scarlett

The problem with that is there are about 20 reviewers and and very short time to do it in. Hence the requirement for everyone not to use the same document.

[Paul K]

Have you tried this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;255085

Originally Posted by Paul

Have you tried this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;255085

Im not looking for a discussion type application like netmeeting. The idea is to be able to accumulate all the review comments. Those that are simple will get actioned there and then. All the outstanding or conflicting points can then be researched and will then get discussed in a formal walkthrough of the document.

The problem weve had is that people review the document, all the comments are then consolidated at the formal walkthrough. The problem is that some issues then need further research and as a result there is no definate decision on some of the points when everyone is together.

The MErge documents facility on ord looks like it should do what i want however it doesnt appear to work properly as you get a problem about "Untracked changes"