Continuous line numbering messes up with track changes

Karen Waldron

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Sep 24, 2010, 12:47:58 PM9/24/10

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My 20-page document has continuous line numbering and my revisions are
tracked using right margin bubbles (except for text additions, which
are in the body, in red). In Word 2003, the line numbering is
perfectly conserved in the page layouts for "final" and "final showing
markup". In Word 2007, this is not the case. The numbering is way
increased in "final showing markup" and there is even a huge jump in
numbering between pages (i.e., the last line on page 9 is line 250 and
the first line on p. 10 is 256).

How do I make Word 2007 mimic Word 2003 so that both options
(continuous line numbering, and final showing markup layout) work?

Stefan Blom

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Sep 26, 2010, 3:03:12 PM9/26/10

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It’s a known issue with Word that numbering may be incorrect in documents where you are tracking changes.

Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

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mira...@gmail.com

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Apr 7, 2019, 9:45:54 PM4/7/19

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This is STILL a problem in Word 2018 (version 16.21 for Mac). How come Microsoft have ignored this horrible amateur-level fault for over a decade! Do people just not use line numbers anymore? Or is it that microsoft engineers cannot find out how to fix it?

orlandoc...@gmail.com

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May 30, 2020, 3:38:03 AM5/30/20

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2020 and I am here looking for a solution to this issue.

dkke...@gmail.com

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Jul 13, 2020, 4:36:38 AM7/13/20

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June 2020 and the issue is still prevalent although I have the latest update. This is so annoying..

Eric Liebgold

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Jan 29, 2021, 12:22:48 PM1/29/21

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Because Microsoft hates Apple. I used to keep an older version of Word on my computer to do this specifically.

JG4689

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Feb 6, 2023, 8:07:10 AM2/6/23

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2023 and this is still an issue despite having the newest Word software... HOW? Scientists need to be able to report line numbers and concurrent track changes to journals!!! This has to be fixed!!!!!

Kate Gore

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Aug 8, 2023, 10:04:55 PM8/8/23

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I have noticed that it resolves only when I view the document in 'simple mark-up' which is not helpful as I need to submit changes to a journal with 'all mark up'

Adrien C. Meynier Pozzi

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Sep 7, 2023, 6:46:16 AM9/7/23

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Le mercredi 9 août 2023 à 04:04:55 UTC+2, Kate Gore a écrit :
> I have noticed that it resolves only when I view the document in 'simple mark-up' which is not helpful as I need to submit changes to a journal with 'all mark up'

Hi all,

This is only a turnaround. You can still track all changes ('all mark up') but display changes in the text only to have continuous line numbering between pages (in Word 2016 on Windows, at least). The issue with inconsistant line numbering could come from tracking all changes with bubbles in the margin, apparently...

Did it work for you?

Valério Pillar

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Dec 7, 2023, 7:54:13 AM12/7/23

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On Tuesday, August 8, 2023 at 11:04:55 PM UTC-3, Kate Gore wrote:
> I have noticed that it resolves only when I view the document in 'simple mark-up' which is not helpful as I need to submit changes to a journal with 'all mark up'

I found a workaround that can be useful when you have to submit a revised manuscript to a journal with all changes marked up:
Go to Markup options > Balloons and select "Show all revisions inline"
Then, go to Markup options > Preferences... and in the menu Markup / Deletions: select "Hidden", and in the menu Moves / Moved from select "Hidden".
This way, all the changes, irrespective of their origin, will be marked, while the continuous line number will not be messed up. However, you will not see the deleted text or where the moved text came from.
It is a shame that Microsoft has been unable to fix this bug after so many years.

(MS Word for Mac v.16.78)