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

Question

I was wondering if this is possible? and if so how?

Thanks.

Answer 1

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

EDIT:

This answer is using OLE Automation, on rereading your question this may not be what you're looking for, sorry.

Answer 2

Here's a post by Eric White that shows how to remove 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 here's the code that he published:

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();