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My wife is editing a book. Due to power outages and things that go bump in the night she had several versions. She wants to consolidate these into one version to send to the author. She has track changes turned on so that the author can see her recommended edits. When she selects a group of paragraphs to copy into another document when she pastes those they show up as if everything in the paragraphs has been edited. All paragraphs show up in orange, for example. Is there way to select, copy and paste those paragraphs while still showing the changes made? We're using Word for Mac version 15.27. Thanks for any assistance
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Confusing as it may seem, you should turn off the tracking in both the source and target documents before pasting the content. Have you tried that?
No thank you...it is working.
Hi John,
Do you need further assistance on this? From your post, I assume that it is already working as expected.
Thanks,
Mike
Thanks. I did the screen shots on my computer instead of my wife's, but the problem is pretty much the same. In the original screen shot you can see the changes, but when I paste them into a new document they are not shown. Track changes is turned on in both instances.
Hi John,
Normally, when the track changes is enabled on the document in which you pasted the contents, the contents pasted will be colored, depends on the settings of that document.
With this, we’d like to verify your issue, but we need you to provide a screenshot of the document, before and after you copy and paste the contents into the new document. This is for us to better understand your situation.
Thanks,
Mike