Text copied from a document with track changes on into a new document (or a document not tracking changes) sometimes comes in showing the tracked changes, sometimes it comes in with all changes accepted. What controls this? I’ve noticed it several times; usually we don’t want the changes to show — if they are, we just accept all changes.
But I was working on a resubmittal of a proposal and we needed changes tracked. I had to copy in a section from the Tech volume to replace the same text in the Mgmt volume (same text appeared both places). The writers decided to change the text in one place only. I turned track changes off and deleted the original text. But I could not copy the text in so that the changes would show; if track changes was turned off, the text came in from the Tech volume with all changes accepted. If I turned on track changes, it all came in as new inserted text. Since the volumes were otherwise completely different I couldn’t merge changes.
So I turned off track changes in the Tech vol. and deleted all text but the stuff I wanted to copy. Saved with another name, then inserted that text into the Mgmt vol. Came in as I wanted, and I could save the document. But then we couldn’t get it opened without an error that we had to repair. The repair ruined all the tables in the document, so it was unusable. Sent an error report to Microsoft and the response was that I had run into a problem Microsoft knew about and there was an update I needed to download. I don’t think the error had anything to do with track changes, tho, since all my tables & bulleted text were “repaired”. And as a user I can’t download anything — have to go thru our Systems people.
Is there a way to keep the original track changes showing when you copy text from one place to another?
