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Questions tagged [change-tracking]

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Manually mark unchanged document content as changed

I made some changes to a document before remembering to enable change tracking. Is there a way I can select some text and forcibly tell MSWord "mark this as changed"?
Mr. Boy
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In MS Word 2010: Change tracking: how can I permanently set color of my tracked changes to red?

Assume a user that use change tracking a lot on different computers on a lot of documents. Can I go to MS Word options and permanently, for ever, set that user "johnk" will always have red color assigned to his tracked changes. (for all documents,…
userJT
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Word 2013 "Track Changes": Autoscroll Next Change to Middle or Top of Page?

I'm searching for help with an annoying behavior of Word's "Track Changes" review. While accepting changes, Word autoscrolls from one markup item to the next. Upon reaching an item at the bottom of a page, though, the focus stays right there for…
Phaux
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How to accept a deletion but keep the comment on it in Microsoft Word

If I have a tracked deletion and there is a comment on it, accepting the deletion will remove the comment as well. The above action results in: Is there any way to accept the deletion while keeping the comment(s) around? Such that I can have the…
ADTC
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In Microsoft Word 2010, is it possible to automatically retrieve a list of page numbers for tracked changes?

I have an upcoming project that will require a detailed list of document changes. We can either use change bars in the document itself, or provide a detailed list of revisions, including each page number that has been changed. I know I can open up…
Kelly Tessena Keck
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Subscribe to changes of an arbitrary web page

There is a plain (html) web page, which occasionally gets updated with text information. Is there any way to get notified (by any means) if this particular web page content is changed whereas website doesn't provide any subscription mechanism?
Aleksandr Medvedev
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Monitor 1000+ websites for changes for one month

I need to monitor 1000+ specific links for about one month to see if their content has changed, and I wonder if I can automate this somehow. One idea was to simply download these websites now and again in one month, and compare the source files. If…
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Can I treat two users as one in track changes (word 2013)?

Scenario: the same user has two PCs and works on the same Word document from two locations, "A" and "B". When he roams, he cannot store the document online. The document must travel on a USB stick. The work done in Location "A" with PC "A" is…
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How to track changes made by `Add-AppxPackage`?

Is there a way to track changes made by running Add-AppxPackage? By changes I mean anything from file system changes (create, modify, delete ... files/folders, change file permissions), registry changes (add, remove, modify keys, permissions, ...).…
MSX
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Why is Word for Macintosh losing author attribution upon each save and not showing spelling errors?

I'm using Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 and have one document that behaves differently than others when doing change tracking. For some reason, only in this document, whenever I save, all change tracked edits and comments lose my attribution and only…
WilliamKF
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How to track all files and directories a Windows installer creates and repackage them as a ZIP?

I have a bunch of way-old Daz 3D content installers that shipped as Windows EXEs, and I need to be able to install them in macOS. These days, Daz provides everything in ZIP files for cross-platform usage, and one can usually re-download old…
S. McCandlish
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Track changes in MS Word through PowerShell script

Could someone please help me modify the script below, so that it can also track changes in MS Word? I need to be able to see where a change was made in order to ensure the sentence that resulted will still make sense. This is the script (not mine):…
Densetsu
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Is there a way to mark a specific segment of a Microsoft Word document containing scanned images?

I have a Word document which mostly amounts to scanned images of a fax (one per page). By default, I see how to use the "Track Changes" (MS Word 2016 Professional) feature to make a comment on the scanned image for one page. That might get the point…
Christos Hayward
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How can I display the name of the user who modified my doc word with option "track changes" off

I am a French writer (sorry for the spelling mistakes). I have given a confidential manuscript to a professional editor in order to correct it. It seems that the guy has forwarded the doc to a non-allowed person who edited it instead of him. The…
iron stuff
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