Hi,

I consider myself a knowledgeable user of MS Word. Our organization
recently hired a trainer to teach beginner and advanced Word courses (I don't
know if the trainer is MOUSE or not). After these courses were taught, I held
a couple of technical workshops to teach staff how to work effectively using
our MS Word report templates. While I was teaching this course, we went over
tracked changes. I was told by the group I was teaching that our contracted
MS Word instructor advised the group that tracked changes can be revealed
even once the changes have all been accepted, the document saved and closed.

This doesn't seem right to me, so I contacted the instructor directly to
speak to him about this issue. I was told that there was some third party
software that could 'get under the hood' and do this.

I realize that there are ways to break a document's security, if so pursued.
But, I would like to know if the history of tracked changes forever stays in
the document or does it get purged once the changes are all accepted and the
document is saved and closed.

If anyone knows the answer to this, I would appreciate your response. I
would like to advise our organization with regards to this technical issue.

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Thanks for your help and have a great day!