Track changes: Moves

[grammatim]

There's an option under Track Changes to track "moves" (with double
underline/strikethrough in green). But when I move something, it
simply appears as a deletion and an insertion. What gives?

[Lene Fredborg]

Is your document in 97-2003 format? Then that explains why. Special marking
of “moves” is not supported in Word 2003 and earlier. You should see the
marking of “moves” correctly in documents in 2007 format.

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[Jay Freedman]

On Sat, 30 May 2009 15:39:23 -0700 (PDT), grammatim <gram...@verizon.net>
wrote:

>There's an option under Track Changes to track "moves" (with double
>underline/strikethrough in green). But when I move something, it
>simply appears as a deletion and an insertion. What gives?

According to
http://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2006/10/13/nice-move-move-tracking-in-word-2007.aspx,
"In Word 2007, Track Changes now includes 'move tracking'. If you cut a sentence
or more from one location and paste it to another, it is tracked as a move and
not as a deletion and insertion."

The criterion is apparently "one sentence or more". This seems to be open to
interpretation; for example, if I move a one-word heading including its
paragraph mark, that's tracked as a move.

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[grammatim]

I tried it with a paragraph. Not only did it wipe out the existing
Tracked Changes (simply presenting the final version as an insertion),
it treated it as deleted and inserted.

On May 30, 7:14 pm, Jay Freedman <jay.freed...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2009 15:39:23 -0700 (PDT), grammatim <gramma...@verizon.net>

> wrote:
>
> >There's an option under Track Changes to track "moves" (with double
> >underline/strikethrough in green). But when I move something, it
> >simply appears as a deletion and an insertion. What gives?
>

> According tohttp://blogs.msdn.com/microsoft_office_word/archive/2006/10/13/nice-m...,

[grammatim]

On May 30, 6:54 pm, Lene Fredborg <l...@REMOVETHISthedoctools.com>
wrote:

> Is your document in 97-2003 format?

Of course not! (And the option isn't available in Compatibility Mode.)

> > simply appears as a deletion and an insertion. What gives?-

[grammatim]

If there were _no tracked changes_ in the moved sentence, it changes
to green in both places when it's pasted.

That's not useful!

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[grammatim]

Once something has been tracked as a Move, it cannot be rejected.
Selecting text that's green gives you the check and x for accept and
reject, but they have no effect; attempting to drag a double-
struckthrough passage simply gives the "This text is marked as
deleted" message.

The only way to undo a Move is via Undo -- and if some editing has
been done since the move, it of course all goes away, too.

I will therefore be unchecking "Keep track of moves" ...

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