Tracked changes not showing

[suroora]

This sounds like a dumb question, but the tracked changes in my document have
disappeared. The text has been changed but the tracked changes don't show.
I've tried View Markup. Apart from my having accepted all the tracked
changes--which I'm quite sure I did not do--is there any other reason why
this is happening?

I'm using Word 2002 on a Windows XP operating system.

Thanks,
Suroor

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

Choose "Final Showing Markup" view on the Reviewing toolbar.

 

[suroora]

I did, but the changes still don't show.

Choose "Final Showing Markup" view on the Reviewing toolbar.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

If no changes show in Final Showing Markup view, then at some point you
probably accepted all the tracked changes. If you saved an earlier
version of the document (possibly attached to an email to someone or
saved somewhere on your hard drive), you can use the Compare Documents
feature to compare the current version with the earlier version and show
the differences between the two versions.

 

[Jörg Kirchhof]

I have a similar problem with Word2003 on a Win XP SP3 computer.

We have made a document with the option "tracked changes" activated. some
people have made changes on the document. it has worked properly, but since
a few days, the informations about the authors are lost. I can still see the
changes, but all changes are made with the same colour and instead of e.g.
"Joerg Kirchhof" I just see "author" as creator of the individual changes.

This happens also with the backup-files, we have made and with older files,
we have never changed since some months. Nobody has accepted these changes
or deleted the author informations.

This happens on every PC in our company. I think, it must be a bug in one of
the automatic software updates or in the SP3, we have installed short
before.

Can someone help? We have to check this document, but without author
informations, it is not possible to make a final version of the document.

Thanks

Joerg Kirchhof


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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jörg,

This can happen if folks are using the setting in
Tools=>Options=>Security

[x] Remove Person information from file properties on save

either individually or if it's been enabled as a policy in the registry.

The 'personal information' includes the name of the person working on the file. If track changes is set to show colors by author
then the changes could all appear in a single color scheme as being all from 'author'.

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I have a similar problem with Word2003 on a Win XP SP3 computer.

We have made a document with the option "tracked changes" activated. some
people have made changes on the document. it has worked properly, but since
a few days, the informations about the authors are lost. I can still see the
changes, but all changes are made with the same colour and instead of e.g.
"Joerg Kirchhof" I just see "author" as creator of the individual changes.

This happens also with the backup-files, we have made and with older files,
we have never changed since some months. Nobody has accepted these changes
or deleted the author informations.

This happens on every PC in our company. I think, it must be a bug in one of
the automatic software updates or in the SP3, we have installed short
before.

Can someone help? We have to check this document, but without author
informations, it is not possible to make a final version of the document.

Thanks

Joerg Kirchhof >>
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MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*