OK, with my testing on Word 2003, both your original macro and the one from my last post allow change tracking to be turned on without showing the markup. The only difference is that mine explicitly turns it off whereas yours retains whatever the entry state was, which might already have been one of the markup views.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

That is strange.. So, my macro actually performs what I intended on your system, while it doesn't on my system. Let me look into it. Thanks for the info.