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Rosemary
Hi,
We use MS Office 2003 in a Windows XP network environment.
We got a document from an outside source that had tracked changes in it. My
question is about this feature's behavior when you are making changes within
changes.
For example, a section of text is all double-underlined because it has been
marked as new text. You go inside that section of new text and delete some
words. What we are used to having happen is that the words just get deleted
out entirely. However, today we got a document in from an outside source
that behaved differently: when we went in the section of new text and
deleted some words, they got struck-through instead of just being deleted.
We determined that this can partly be due to different authors editing the
same sections of text. So we tried an experiment. We created a brand new
document and then had three different people on three different PCs make
changes. But as the document got passed around, each person who tried
deleting text within the section of new text found that the words just got
deleted out, and were not struck-through.
Could it be that the document that we got from an outside source was created
in Word 2007?
Or, there must be a setting that determines how changes within changes are
handled. In our case, track changes was showing text that was deleted from a
double-underlined section of text (new text) as struck-through. The owner of
this document wants us to figure out why this is happening. He wants us to
change his settings so that changes made to added (double-underlined) text do
not show as new changes.
We did notice that the document from the outside source had three Reviewers
listed: All Reviewers, Default, and Author. The document we created,
however, only had All Reviewers and Default listed. I don't know if this had
anything to do with the differing behavior of track changes, but we couldn't
find any other differences in the Options between the two documents.
I hope I explained this in a way that makes some sense!
Many thanks,
Rosemary
We use MS Office 2003 in a Windows XP network environment.
We got a document from an outside source that had tracked changes in it. My
question is about this feature's behavior when you are making changes within
changes.
For example, a section of text is all double-underlined because it has been
marked as new text. You go inside that section of new text and delete some
words. What we are used to having happen is that the words just get deleted
out entirely. However, today we got a document in from an outside source
that behaved differently: when we went in the section of new text and
deleted some words, they got struck-through instead of just being deleted.
We determined that this can partly be due to different authors editing the
same sections of text. So we tried an experiment. We created a brand new
document and then had three different people on three different PCs make
changes. But as the document got passed around, each person who tried
deleting text within the section of new text found that the words just got
deleted out, and were not struck-through.
Could it be that the document that we got from an outside source was created
in Word 2007?
Or, there must be a setting that determines how changes within changes are
handled. In our case, track changes was showing text that was deleted from a
double-underlined section of text (new text) as struck-through. The owner of
this document wants us to figure out why this is happening. He wants us to
change his settings so that changes made to added (double-underlined) text do
not show as new changes.
We did notice that the document from the outside source had three Reviewers
listed: All Reviewers, Default, and Author. The document we created,
however, only had All Reviewers and Default listed. I don't know if this had
anything to do with the differing behavior of track changes, but we couldn't
find any other differences in the Options between the two documents.
I hope I explained this in a way that makes some sense!
Many thanks,
Rosemary