How do I print tracked changes but not formatting changes? (Word 2013)

Question

I am using Word 2013 on a Windows 7 PC.  In the Review tab, when I uncheck Formatting in the Show Markup dropdown, it prevents the formatting changes from showing on my screen and in print preview, but still prints them on my document in the right margin (cut off like I show in the image below).   How do I prevent printing them altogether if I'm not ready to "accept" those formatting changes?  I just want to print all the tracked changes in my document except for the formatting changes.

Thanks in advance everyone!

Answer 1

Any document that illustrates the symptoms will do. For example, you can start with a problem document and remove any sensitive information. You can even remove all the text and replace it with nonsense.

Answer 2

So I had a heck of a time with this, and through your example noticed I had a very similar problem. After a day of fighting with Word, I came back refreshed, and realized I had multiple instances of word and other office products open. So I tried closing all of my word and excel documents, then re-opened the document I was trying to print. I had to uncheck all of the items in Tracking again, and it finally worked for what I was trying to do. I wanted change bars, but no bubbles. Hope this helps someone else.

Answer 3

So I had a heck of a time with this, and through your example noticed I had a very similar problem. After a day of fighting with Word, I came back refreshed, and realized I had multiple instances of word and other office products open. So I tried closing all of my word and excel documents, then re-opened the document I was trying to print. I had to uncheck all of the items in Tracking again, and it finally worked for what I was trying to do. I wanted change bars, but no bubbles. Hope this helps someone else.

This does indeed seem to be the problem. I just spent an hour suffering this same problem, searched and landed here. I also had two additional documents open from before I needed to print the problem document and as soon as I closed them, the proper printing behavior worked.

I am a software quality engineer by trade, and it would seem to me that it is likely that when multiple instances of Word (2013 in my case) are open, the markup options used during actual printing (not print preview) are not the options of the currently active instance of Word. This is based on the behavior I observed in a couple dozen tests. When there is only one instance open, it works fine.