Track Changes and Numbering

[Sharon]

I have Word 2003 Document, that it being shared back and
forth with Word 2002, and here is the issue. I turned on
Track Changes in while in 2002. Then sent the document
to 2003. When I got it back, I turned off track changes
however when I insert a number, using the auto numbering
function in Word, the Track Changes function shows the
change even though it is turned off in both Word 2002 and
2003. How do a stop track changes from working with the
autonumbering (it is off in the rest of the document)?

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Sharon

Entanglement between numbering and track changes used to occur back in Word
97 and in that case the only solution I recall was to treat it as a corrupt
document, and paste the contents (excluding the last paragraph) into a new
document.

Other things you might try:

Different views on the changes
Accept all changes
Use a macro to turn off tracking (ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False)
Reset the panes in Format > Bullets and Numbering

For longer term stability, it's usually better to use styles for numbering,
rather than the AutoNumbering feature.

 

[Matt Brody]

I am running into similar issues:

Two similar problems:

1) Save a document with Page X of Y in footer. E-mail it
to a friend. Friend opens document, and finds that the
Y in the footer is Y(strikethrough)(space)Y ... i.e.,
Word is re-calculating the page total and tracking its
change.

2) Friend opens same document, finds that the table of
contents has also re-calculated itself and tracked each
change.

Any new inspiration based on this issue?

-----Original Message-----
Hi Sharon

Entanglement between numbering and track changes used to occur back in Word
97 and in that case the only solution I recall was to treat it as a corrupt
document, and paste the contents (excluding the last paragraph) into a new
document.

Other things you might try:

Different views on the changes
Accept all changes
Use a macro to turn off tracking

(ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False)