Track-changes acting funny

[RJL]

I'm a regular user of Track Changes (in Word 2000).
Recently, the results of running Track Changes has been
more or less useless. What I get is a document where *all*
of the original document is first "struck-out" followed by
*all* of the text from the newer document, shown as
"added." Previously the results of using Track-Changes had
been markings adjacent to the specific change.

(1) Is there a setting that controls how Track-Changes
operates -- that I can use to fix this?

(2) Why would this happen if I have not changed my settings
in Word?

TIA.

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Rjl,

Is this happening just in some documents? Existing documents?
Only newly created documents? Documents from a particular
source, or template?

If you give such a document to someone else to open on a
different machine, do they see the same behavior?

I'm a regular user of Track Changes (in Word 2000).
Recently, the results of running Track Changes has been
more or less useless. What I get is a document where *all*
of the original document is first "struck-out" followed by
*all* of the text from the newer document, shown as
"added." Previously the results of using Track-Changes had
been markings adjacent to the specific change.

(1) Is there a setting that controls how Track-Changes
operates -- that I can use to fix this?

(2) Why would this happen if I have not changed my settings
in Word?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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