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Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: pooka on June 06, 2007, 06:06:46 AM

Has anyone used these?  I just did a save as with a new file name and the entire document is red (and I have it set to show insertions as red).

It's probably not critical for today, I'm just trying to figure out how this stupid thing is supposed to work.  I guess for now I'll just have to use manual text color changes.  

A couple of weeks ago we had an urgent situation where another law firm had made changes and they were supposed to show red.  I think I finally figured out why I couldn't see it.  I guess I should try opening that and see if it behaves in the way I would expect it to.

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: Jonathon on June 06, 2007, 07:48:56 AM

I've used it. I don't know what would cause the whole document to turn red, though. Try cycling through the changes and either accepting or rejecting them. Maybe that'll make it go away.

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: pooka on June 06, 2007, 09:58:42 AM

Oooh.  I'll see if I can figure out what that means.  Using the reviewing pane?

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: Jonathon on June 06, 2007, 11:03:06 AM

I think you can do it there. But I meant the previous and next buttons on the Reviewing toolbar.

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: rivka on June 06, 2007, 01:35:48 PM

You can also highlight and right click a given section to approve/refuse corrections.

If you saved with a new file name (instead of renaming the existing file) it may have decided that you just created the whole thing, and therefore the entire document constitutes changed text.

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: JT on June 07, 2007, 06:52:16 AM

Please forward this email to whomever is in charge of scheduling this.

Outlook's grammar checker wanted me to replace 'whomever' in this sentence
with 'whoever'.

 :nono:  

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: Jonathon on June 07, 2007, 07:38:30 AM

It's right for once. The relative pronoun "whoever/whomever" fills two grammatical slots—two object slots or an object and a subject. In your sentence, it's the subject of the clause "is in charge of scheduling this" and the object of the preposition "to." In these cases, the traditional rule is that the subject role trumps the object role.

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: JT on June 07, 2007, 07:42:50 AM

How so?

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: Jonathon on June 07, 2007, 07:45:36 AM

*points up*

I edited to include an explanation.

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: JT on June 07, 2007, 07:55:44 AM

But the 'to who...' just reads weird.

I've decided I ignored that rule on purpose, even though I didn't know it at the time.

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: Jonathon on June 07, 2007, 08:11:12 AM

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But the 'to who...' just reads weird.

Yup. Which is why a lot of people don't follow that rule.

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: rivka on June 07, 2007, 08:51:43 AM

And Outlook doesn't have a separate grammar checker. It uses Word's. ;)

Title: MS Word Change Tracking
Post by: JT on June 07, 2007, 11:16:37 AM

Which is why I posted it in this thread.