Thank you, Suzanne,

It's a trying process with some people who think they're masters...even I
have to look at the manual from time to time.

I ended up doing just that with this document, and I gave a brief but
tedious lecture to the author on this topic.

Beck

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Easy explanation: the people you sent this to don't know how to use Track
Changes and have applied the formatting as direct font formatting. If you
use Reveal Formatting, you'll doubtless see the evidence of this. (I would
think the document might have been protected for tracked changes, but I
would not expect Word to fail to "see" these changes even if you couldn't
accept or reject them.)

Before you tear out your last hair, see if you can figure out any
formatting
that has been consistently used for deletions; search for text formatted
with that formatting and replace it with nothing. Then search for text
formatted as additions and remove the font formatting. sigh

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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