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Track and Merge Changes Confusion
I'm having some problems with Word 2003's Track and Merge Changes.
Here's the information: There is an article, approximately 150 pages, with approximately 500 footnotes. Roughly thirty people have verified various parts of the article, checking format and footnotes. Each reviewer has saved their changes to their own document. Now, I want to merge these 30-odd files back into the original. However, problems abound! The most serious is that once the second file is merged, it starts to reinsert the original components that were deleted by another reviewer. In addition, the footnotes start to become deleted. For example, one reviewer will change footnote 146. When the next document is merged, footnote 146 is deleted, and the footnote is now found as 147. there is a gap where 146 was. Another document will delete 147, with the footnote now found at 148. I've tried merging with and without "Find Formatting" and every permutation of where and how to merge documents my meager mind can come up with. Any help is greatly appreciated. chris |
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Track and Merge Changes Confusion
Hi Chris,
Basically, document merge works when the changes in both documents have been accepted (or rejected), so you're starting with documents containing NO changes whatsoever. The merge then marks/compares where the documents differ. I don't think you're going to find any satisfactory method, using Word's built-in tools, to combine the thirty sets of corrections into one document and still be able to see all the corrections as "tracked changes" within that document. Word wasn't designed to function in this manner. I'm having some problems with Word 2003's Track and Merge Changes. Here's the information: There is an article, approximately 150 pages, with approximately 500 footnotes. Roughly thirty people have verified various parts of the article, checking format and footnotes. Each reviewer has saved their changes to their own document. Now, I want to merge these 30-odd files back into the original. However, problems abound! The most serious is that once the second file is merged, it starts to reinsert the original components that were deleted by another reviewer. In addition, the footnotes start to become deleted. For example, one reviewer will change footnote 146. When the next document is merged, footnote 146 is deleted, and the footnote is now found as 147. there is a gap where 146 was. Another document will delete 147, with the footnote now found at 148. I've tried merging with and without "Find Formatting" and every permutation of where and how to merge documents my meager mind can come up with. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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