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Corrupted documents
I'm an editor who works on a lot of government documents. When they come to me for editing, they look clean, but often have had numerous stakeholders making tracked changes that have then been accept...
Bridie_Will Are you working in On-Line copies of the documents or are you downloading them to your computer and working on that copy. The latter is what I would recommend and I would be surprised if you encounter the issue when working on the documents opened from your computer.
Failing that, you could accept all of the prior changes to get a clean copy of the document. Then save that and make your changes.
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVPHi Doug, yes, I always download the file and work from my computer. When it comes to me, there are no tracked changes visible in the document, but I know numerous people have made changes previously and then they have been accepted. Is there a way to clear the back end?
Bridie_Will Try copying everything EXCEPT for the final paragraph mark in the document and then paste it into a new blank document.
- Thank you, Doug! I'll try that next time. Cheers.