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rkoreto
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Aug 20, 2023

Headers Doing Weird Things To My Manuscript

I am a book author. I use the automatic header function for my chapter heads. This way, when I delete or add a chapter as I revise, the chapters automatically renumber and I always have a clean, accurate TOC to click through in the left margin. 

 

I wonder if an error or bad formatting or something like that could cause this error: I opened up my finished manuscript for revision and two chapters, more than 100 pages apart, just switched. This couldn't be a manual error. I never switch chapters like that--everything is painstakingly organized well in advance. Also, all my other changes, such as sentence edits, were marked in track changes, which I always have on during revisions. Why would this move NOT track like all the others?

 

Any idea of how this might have happened? A very difficult switch without my knowing or realizing AND bypassing the tracked change function? The switch was absolutely perfect, not even leaving any extra space. It would take me a long time to do that manually. Would a heading formatting error do that? Not to be paranoid, but could someone have done this remotely? I just want to make sure this doesn't happen again.

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  • rkoreto In 40 years of using Microsoft Word, I have never experienced anything like that (that was not a user action)

    However, it is very easy to re-arrange chapters by clicking on the heading, of the chapter that you want to relocate in the Navigation Pane and dragging it into the new position.

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      rkoreto
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      Thank you! This is much appreciated. This is what may have happened, but I still don't see why the change wasn't tracked along with the other changes I made.

      Anyway, I am never using that automatic function again!

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