Programmatically delete or hide comments / track changes in Word 2007?

Question

I was wondering if this is possible? And if so, how?

Answer 1

Here is Eric White's post that shows how to delete comments: http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/archive/2008/07/14/using-the-open-xml-sdk-and-linq-to-xml -to-remove-comments-from-an-open-xml-wordprocessing-document.aspx

In short, the code he posted is:

XName commentRangeStart = w + "commentRangeStart";

XName commentRangeEnd = w + "commentRangeEnd";

XName commentReference = w + "commentReference";

mainDocumentXDoc.Descendants()

    .Where(x =>

       x.Name == commentRangeStart ||

       x.Name == commentRangeEnd ||

       x.Name == commentReference)

    .Remove();

Answer 2

How about the following:

ActiveWindow.View.RevisionsView = wdRevisionsViewFinal
ActiveWindow.View.ShowRevisionsAndComments = False

This will show the final document without markup.

Note. ActiveWindow is a property of the Word.Application class

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Answer 3

Turn track changes on / off by setting the ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions parameter to True / False.