Re: Cannot activate "Track Changes" on Word 2004 for Mac

Check the Tools>Protect Document setting. It may be that he has Protected
the document, in which case the Revision Tracking tool can not enable.

Or it may be that he has been paying around with the changes that were
marked near a table or section break (within one character of a table or
section break) and has managed to orrupt the document.

Copy everything except the last paragraph mark into a fresh new documen and
see if that fixes it...

Cheers

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer,
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"Tony" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I cannot activate "Track Changes" on a Word ".doc" document using Word 2004
version 11.3.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.9 (Mac mini Intel). The problem arises only
with a document that I have received from a PC-Windows user. No problem for
the documents that I create on my Mac.

Problem description:

If I open the ".doc" file and to go "Tools/Track changes/Highlight
changes", I see all the three option unchecked:

- Track changes while editing
- Highlight changes on screen
- Highlight changes in printed documents

Note: on the documents that I create on my Mac, I see unchecked only the
first one, and then I can check it and changes are tracked with a
different color.

On that particular ".doc" file from the PC-Windows user, none of such
three options were selected. I can check them all, but when I close and
open again such "Highlight Changes" window, only the first option remains
checked.

In fact, if I type something, it is not typed in red as it should be. So,
the track changes does not work.

Note: this document was originally created by a PC-Windows user, I
received it, activated tracked changes OK, edited it (my editing showed in
red), sent it back to the PC-Windows user who, after accepting the
changes, sent the ".doc" file to me again. But now I cannot activate the
track changes feature.

Any help most welcome. Thanks.



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