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Most of us use "Track Changes" in Microsoft Word when working on a document to note the changes/additions/deletions done by others. Once that process is over, the typical next step is to agree to the changes in the document to produce a non-red-lined version (or 'clean copy') as it is known.

...Just the other day I finished collaborating on a Word document... accepted all changes.... saved it... and sent the 'clean copy' to my collaborating colleagues -- one of which was just down the hall. She said to me: 'Why did you send me a version still showing all the tracked changes? I thought you were sending out a clean copy?'..."

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Source: Slaw.ca, 9 April 2010. Reproduced with permission of Simon Fodden, founder of Slaw

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on April 12, 2010 (boomark / email).