Copying edited material with track changes into a new document.

Anonymous
2017-01-27T21:30:27+00:00

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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Stefan Blom 353.8K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2017-02-02T20:47:14+00:00

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?

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-02-02T08:28:12+00:00

    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

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-02-01T14:43:13+00:00

    Thanks...I have not been able to solve the problem.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-02-01T09:06:10+00:00

    Hi John,

    Do you need further assistance on this?

    Thanks,

    Mike

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-01-31T04:32:01+00:00

    I missed the orange mention. Orange is not Word's standard color for tracking changes, so it must have been altered. Perhaps additions and deletions are set to the same color. Make sure you have the markup colors you want in Track Changes preferences.

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