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Fateepee
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Mar 04, 2022

Does anyone know what this redish/purplish vertical line is?

When I hover over it, I get my name popping up but I have no clue what it is. I tried to turn off review tracking and commenting all to no avail.
Thoughts?

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      Fateepee
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      Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP 

      Hi Doug,

      The problem is now gone. I don't know exactly why. I think it might have to do with the fact that I had one instance of word with the document open running on my main pc, and I was editing the document on my laptop, which was stored on my OneDrive.

       

      No further investigation needed.

      Thanks for helping out.

       

      • Fateepee 

         

        My guess is that you were seeing the "flags" that represent different users in a co-authoring environment. Since the document was open on both your PC and your laptop, Word/OneDrive identified this as two different users. 

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