Now, when you upload your document to Blackboard, it will look normal (see image below) and will have neither comments nor tracked changes in the margin.
Read on to learn how to remove both the tracked changes edits and the comments from your Word documents. I'm on the most up-to-date version of Word (15.38) It's happening with different documents, different clients and different projects I cannot cut and paste to a new Word doc - the problem is still there. Or, worse, when you upload the document to Blackboard, they show up when your instructor views your paper (as seen in the image below). Word is stuck on Draft view (ie, clicking on View> Print Layout has no effect).
Even after incorporating the comments and the changes, you may still see the comments and the changes in the margin of your paper. VBA code: remove footnote and endnote separator lines in document Sub DeleteTheFootnoteSeparator()Ī = wdPaneEndnoteSeparatorĪ you have someone edit or proofread your paper for a class, they may have used either the “Comment” tool or the “Track Changes” tool in Microsoft Word.
Note: If you want to remove all separator lines of footnote and endnote, the below VBA code can help. Then all footnotes’ separator lines are removed immediately from the document. Type = wdWebView Or _Ī = wdSeekFootnotesĪ = wdPaneFootnotesĪ = wdPaneFootnoteSeparatorĪ = wdPaneFootnoteContinuationSeparatorģ. VBA code: remove footnote separator line in document Sub DeleteTheFootnoteSeparator() Then copy below VBA code into the Module window. In the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window, click Insert > Module. In the document you will remove separator line of footnote, press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.Ģ. If the above method is inconvenient for you, you can try the following VBA codes to quickly remove all separator lines of footnote or both footnote and endnote from document.ġ. Remove footnote/endnote separator lines with VBA code Note: To remove the endnote separator line, you just need to check View endnote area in the above Show Notes dialog, and then select Endnote Separator in the Endnotes drop-down list. Then you can see the separator line of footnote is removed immediately from the document. Shift to the Print Layout view of the document. Now the Notes section is displaying at the end of the document, please select Footnote Separator in the Footnotes drop-down list, select the separator line and then press the Delete key to delete it.
Note: If only footnote or endnote existing in your document, ignore this step and move to step 4.Ĥ. If there are both footnotes and endnotes in your document, a Show Notes dialog box will pop up, please select an option as you need and then click the OK button. Then click References > Show Notes as below screenshot shown.ģ. In the document you will remove its footnote or endnotes separator line, click View > Draft.Ģ. You can remove footnote or endnote separator line in Word as follows.ġ. Remove footnote/endnote separator line with VBA code Remove footnote/endnote separator line in Word If you want to get rid of these separator lines, please try methods in this article. When inserting footnotes or endnotes in Word document, you will find there is always a horizontal separator line above the footnote or endnotes texts. Draft View Draft view is the most frequently used view.
How to remove the footnote/endnote separator line in Word document? In Word 2007, you can display your document in one of five views: Draft, Web Layout, Print Layout, Full Screen Reading, or Online Layout.