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Track changes problem in table - Word 2000
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 |
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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 |
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Thanks Klaus,
I'll have to try some of these macros, they look like they might be useful. I'll give anything a go to clean up this doc! Since I first found this problem, I have also discovered that when it occurs where one of the revisions is the deletion of a style with numbering, any further revisions to styles with numbering in the table are tracked - whether tracking is on or not! Maybe a macro will be able to clean that up as well. I'll have to give it a shot. Thanks COE "Klaus Linke" wrote: 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 |
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[...] any further revisions to styles with numbering in
the table are tracked - whether tracking is on or not! I don't see that when tracking is off. That would be an additional bug. Maybe a macro will be able to clean that up as well. I'll have to give it a shot. Good luck... and if it doesn't maybe you can mail me a doc where numbering is tracked even though "Track changes" is off. Regards, Klaus "COE" schrieb: Thanks Klaus, I'll have to try some of these macros, they look like they might be useful. I'll give anything a go to clean up this doc! Since I first found this problem, I have also discovered that when it occurs where one of the revisions is the deletion of a style with numbering, any further revisions to styles with numbering in the table are tracked - whether tracking is on or not! Maybe a macro will be able to clean that up as well. I'll have to give it a shot. Thanks COE "Klaus Linke" wrote: 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 |
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"Klaus Linke" wrote: I don't see that when tracking is off. That would be an additional bug. It must be another bug. I haven't been able to recreate it yet, but it is something to do with one of the revisions being the removal of a style with numbering. Good luck... and if it doesn't maybe you can mail me a doc where numbering is tracked even though "Track changes" is off. Thanks. I'll have to track down the document again. Cheers, COE |
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Track changes problem in table - Word 2000
Just updating this problem,
by far the easiest workaround for this is to insert a new row, cut and paste the text to the new row, and then delete the old row. In most cases this also preserves the tracked changes. "COE" wrote: "Klaus Linke" wrote: I don't see that when tracking is off. That would be an additional bug. It must be another bug. I haven't been able to recreate it yet, but it is something to do with one of the revisions being the removal of a style with numbering. Good luck... and if it doesn't maybe you can mail me a doc where numbering is tracked even though "Track changes" is off. Thanks. I'll have to track down the document again. Cheers, COE |
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