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Klaus Linke
 
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Default Track changes problem in table - Word 2000

Hi COE,

Revisions in tables are terribly buggy. There have been some discussions on
this... I remember
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3c0075d7ab12a1

I was not able to adapt the macro from there for your problem, though.
Since the Revisions collection is shot, and since revisions can overlap,
it's really hard to treat them all without missing some.

When there are bugs like this, it sometimes helps to see why it wasn't
fixed... that is, why it does work 8at least in some limited way) from the
user interface.

In the UI, the buttons for the previous and next revision simply ignore the
problematic revisions.

So maybe we can use those built-in commands, say
WordBasic.NextChangeOrComment
instead of
Selection.NextRevision?

The macro below ignores the problematic revisions. Once it reaches the end
of the document, you get a dialog asking you whether you want to continue at
the beginning of the doc... I haven't found a good way around that.

Dim myRevision As Revision
' Go to start of doc...
Selection.HomeKey (wdStory)
' and deal with all revisions:
Do
WordBasic.NextChangeOrComment
Set myRevision = Selection.Range.Revisions(1)
MsgBox myRevision.Type
Loop While Not (myRevision Is Nothing)

It's not a real solution, not even a very good work-around, but maybe better
than nothing...

Regards,
Klaus



"COE" wrote:
Hi, I am having a problem with track changes that is almost identical to
the
kb Article - 209584 -WD2000: "Accept or Reject Changes" Skips Table
Cells.

However the workaround in the article is not working.

ie - there are two diferrent tracked changes in a single table cell. One
is
an insertion, and can be accepted. The other is a paragraph number that
was
removed when the style was removed. This paragraph number is proving
impossible to accept and therefore to remove. Every time I try it the
entire
row is selected and accept changes does nothing.

I have tried accepting changes through track changes and the reviewing
toolbar - no luck with either.

Accept all changes works - but unfortunately I need all the other changes.

Does anyone have any other ideas?

COE