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MSWORD TRACK CHANGES FUNCTION
Doug - thx for offering to take a shot. Attached is the doc. last Microsoft tech guy was stumped and is supposed to get back to after more research but haven't heard back yet. Still have the prob after reinstalling Office 365 and prob occurs with other docs also so it's not just limited to the attached doc. Appreciate any thing you come up with.
Can you provide a screen shot showing how you have set the Advanced Track Changes Options.
With the Advanced Track Changes Options set up as shown below, the several changes that I have made are shown in the colors selected and after quite a few minutes have not changed
I created the original doc and recvd the redline back from the person I sent it to (his comments are in red). Now I'm using track changes and my changes should show in blue but also showing his comments in red so we each can see changes made by each other. Thinking about this...maybe I'm not using track changes correctly?
Mike_FinkMfink99 Make sure that when you click on Specific People from the Show Markup dropdown that you appear as a separate entity. If that is the case, if you select by Author in the Advanced Track Changes dialog, your changes should appear in a different colour
If you click on the Balloons fly-out and select Show Revisions in Balloons, the name of the person who deleted text will be shown
As Doug suggested, looking into which Specific People are listed as reviewers might give important clues. Personally, I would also enable the option in Word that uses the user name specified in the Word Options dialog box rather than the online/OneDrive settings.
- I appreciate everyone's help. I've tried all suggestions the best I can but it's still not working the way I think it should. I very well could be using track changes incorrectly or have false expectations. At this point, it's best if I meet 'in person' with a tech person who knows track changes well. I'm sure we'll figure it out. Thx again.
