Tracked Changes Problem

[Leigh]

I receive copyedited files from my employer's freelancer who uses both
Word 2002 and 1997 (depending on which computer she uses) for the PC
and I use Word 2004 for Mac. The tracked changes appear on the screen
as underline for insertions and strikethrough for deletions. I can
print out the file and the underlines and strikethroughs print.
However, if I highlight something that has an underline or
strikethrough, then my version of Word does not recognize that the item
is underlined or struckthrough. I see the underlines/strikethroughs on
screen, but when I try to search/replace the underlines with word
underlines, the find function says that there are no underlined items
in the text even though I see underlined items on the screen. I also
have to import this text into QuarkXpress and when I try to import, all
the text imports, but the underlines/srikethroughs drop out even when I
check the Quark option to include style sheets.

Anyone know of a workaround for this? I must keep the
underlines/strikethroughs so that the authors can see the changes the
copyeditor has made.

Thanks!

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Cross-posted, with follow-up set to the microsoft.public.mac.office.word
newgroup.

I receive copyedited files from my employer's freelancer who uses both
Word 2002 and 1997 (depending on which computer she uses) for the PC
and I use Word 2004 for Mac. The tracked changes appear on the screen
as underline for insertions and strikethrough for deletions. I can
print out the file and the underlines and strikethroughs print.
However, if I highlight something that has an underline or
strikethrough, then my version of Word does not recognize that the item
is underlined or struckthrough. I see the underlines/strikethroughs on
screen, but when I try to search/replace the underlines with word
underlines, the find function says that there are no underlined items
in the text even though I see underlined items on the screen. I also
have to import this text into QuarkXpress and when I try to import, all
the text imports, but the underlines/srikethroughs drop out even when I
check the Quark option to include style sheets.

Anyone know of a workaround for this? I must keep the
underlines/strikethroughs so that the authors can see the changes the
copyeditor has made.

The underlines and strikethroughs aren't "real" in the sense that
they're decorations added by Word's track changes feature, rather than
elements of the text's style, which is what Find uses.

I'm afraid I don't know anything about pulling a Word doc into
QuarkXpress, but I'm hopeful that someone reading the Word newsgroup
will.