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Merging documents skips tracked deletions
Fairly new to Compare-and-Merge, but thought I was following the
instructions carefully.... Whenever I merge (comments & revisions), most if not all of the tracked deletions are ignored, that is, they appear untouched in the merged document. This happens whether I merge to the original or to a new document, and it happens on 2 different PCs running Word 2003 and 2007. Is there a setting I'm missing? TIA MT |
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Merging documents skips tracked deletions
The other day I did a Compare (2007) and noticed a checkbox in that
big panel of options asking whether to do something-or-other with tracked changes (I think it said "treat tracked changes as incorporated," or something like that -- probably not using that word!). Try it with the opposite setting for that box? On Aug 26, 3:05*am, Mark Tangard wrote: Fairly new to Compare-and-Merge, but thought I was following the instructions carefully.... Whenever I merge (comments & revisions), most if not all of the tracked deletions are ignored, that is, they appear untouched in the merged document. *This happens whether I merge to the original or to a new document, and it happens on 2 different PCs running Word 2003 and 2007. Is there a setting I'm missing? TIA MT |
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Merging documents skips tracked deletions
Thanks, Peter. I've seen that message, but this is a Merge, not a
Compare, and the options are different. But I just figured something out: What I want is a Merge, or at least that's what the documentation implies I want -- a resulting document that combines the comments and tracked revisions from another document(s). I CAN get that, if I do a Compare instead -- it shows both insertions & deletions properly and imports the comments. Only problem -- big problem, really -- is that it removes the true author identifier from those revisions & comments, replacing it with my own. I can alter that in the dialog by specifying one name to, er, 'blame' for all of the imported comments/revisions, but that doesn't work if the doc has been fondled by several commenters, which is the norm here. Does anyone know a way to do a true merge, with the author identifiers preserved? A regular Merge seems to do that perfectly except that it ignores deletions! TIA MT Peter T. Daniels wrote: The other day I did a Compare (2007) and noticed a checkbox in that big panel of options asking whether to do something-or-other with tracked changes (I think it said "treat tracked changes as incorporated," or something like that -- probably not using that word!). Try it with the opposite setting for that box? On Aug 26, 3:05 am, Mark Tangard wrote: Fairly new to Compare-and-Merge, but thought I was following the instructions carefully.... Whenever I merge (comments & revisions), most if not all of the tracked deletions are ignored, that is, they appear untouched in the merged document. This happens whether I merge to the original or to a new document, and it happens on 2 different PCs running Word 2003 and 2007. Is there a setting I'm missing? TIA MT |
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