Word – Create PDF showing only legal black bar markup in Word 2013

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My Word 2013 document has tracked changes. When I save to PDF, it includes all the tracked change information (including showing deleted text). This is despite me having the view setting configured as "Simple Markup".

My goal is to produce a PDF that only has the vertical bar in the left margin indicating parts of the document that have been altered. Is this possible?

I tried doing a comparison of the two documents (Review > Compare…), but the resulting document behaved exactly the same when saved as PDF.

Best Answer

  1. Click on the little arrow in the corner of Tracking portion of Review ribbon to get to Track Changes Options
  2. Click Advanced Options
  3. Change Markup for Insertions and Deletions to (none)

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