Tracked changes disappear when text is copied

External Since: May 19, 2008 Posts: 1

I need to save a book with tracked changes as individual chapters. How
do I do this without losing the coloured marks? If I copy even a few
words and then paste them into a new document, the marks disappear. If
I turn on Highlight Changes in the new document, the whole text appears
as a change, but not the individual changes I made before copying and
pasting it.

I know I can delete all the text apart from the chapter I want to keep
and then save that as a separate document, but the whole thing runs to
50 chapters and more than 350 pages, and it will take me a long time to
do. I feel there must be a simpler solution.

The document has a page break at the end of each chapter, but no
section breaks and no master document/subdocuments.

I am using Word 2004 for Mac (OS 10.4.11).

Thank you.

Helen

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Helen Banks

External Since: Sep 26, 2003 Posts: 18972

The article at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html
provides the magic combinations (which I can never remember) for copying
text with or without tracked changes.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Helen Banks" <Helen.Banks.2778426 DeleteThis @officefrustration.com> wrote in message
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>
> I need to save a book with tracked changes as individual chapters. How
> do I do this without losing the coloured marks? If I copy even a few
> words and then paste them into a new document, the marks disappear. If
> I turn on Highlight Changes in the new document, the whole text appears
> as a change, but not the individual changes I made before copying and
> pasting it.
>
> I know I can delete all the text apart from the chapter I want to keep
> and then save that as a separate document, but the whole thing runs to
> 50 chapters and more than 350 pages, and it will take me a long time to
> do. I feel there must be a simpler solution.
>
> The document has a page break at the end of each chapter, but no
> section breaks and no master document/subdocuments.
>
> I am using Word 2004 for Mac (OS 10.4.11).
>
> Thank you.
>
> Helen
>
>
>
>
> --
> Helen Banks
>