cannot copy deleted text in tracked changes

[Nickred001]

If I delete some text in tracked changes and I decide that these words might
be useful elsewhere, why won't Word 2007 allow me to copy and paste them. It
simply gives a pop-up saying the text is marked as deleted and does not
change the clipboard.

This restriction seems silly

Regards

Nick

 

[DeanH]

Not to sure about 2007 but previous version, these was a built-in feature.
Work-around, temporarily reject the deletion for the text you want, copy,
redo deletion.
Hope this works for you.
DeanH

 

[grammatim]

Because the text has been deleted.

Undelete it for the moment by selecting it, click Reject Change, copy
it, and delete it again.

 

[coffent]

The suggested workaround becomes even clumsier if the deleted text contains
an endnote one wants to copy. In this case rejecting the endnote doesn't
work - the endnote disappears from the "Endnote changes / Deleted" section
but doesn't reappear as an Endnote because the referencing text is still
deleted! It appears one must then search through all deleted text to find
the place where the reference was made, reject that deletion, then go back to
the Endnotes section to copy the endnote, then finally undo the rejection of
the deletion.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

I don't use endnotes, only footnotes, but there doesn't seem to be a
reason they would work differently: if you Reject the deletion of the
endnote reference, you should be able to Copy the endnote while you
still have the note reference selected, rather than going back to the
"section" you mention (which is unfamiliar to me -- are you using one
of the special ways of showing changes, rather than simply crossed-out
deletions and underlined insertions?).

It might be easier to work if you make your notes footnotes and (if
you must) convert them to endnotes when you're done.

 

[coffent]

You're right, if you're in the "Final Showing Markup" view. I was in the
"Final" view with changes showing in the Reviewing Pane.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Ah. I find that scheme very annoying because you lose your formatting,
you don't see the entire text of longer changes, etc.