[gingerpeach123]

I am working in Word 2003 (Windows XP on a PC) on a document that contains
many comments from different reviewers, made at different times over the past
few months. I am responsible for managing the document and consolidating all
the comments and changes that are made.

Not long ago, I noticed that the timestamp on all the comments seemed to
have "reset" to the same time/date, as though all of them had been entered
simultaneously just a few minutes earlier. Fortunately, the correct author
identification was preserved for each one. When I added new comments into the
document, they had the correct stamp.

This same type of "reset" occurred on a later date as well (time/date
updated, author info OK). Unfortunately, the times I've noticed this have
been in the middle of frantic work on the document, and the timestamp change
isn't obvious until I happen to scroll over the comments, so I can't say
exactly what I had done immediately before the change occurred.

Can document merges cause such a global "reset" to occur? (I've done some
test merges and cannot seem to replicate the problem. ) Any settings I might
need to look at?

Any ideas would be appreciated! Thanks!