In the new document formatting changes appeared everywhere the 'List She opened a document on a network drive that had been edited by many different people, made some edits and saved it as a new document. I am supporting someone who had this same issue. Viewing only the formatting changes should be helpful in the process, though. Unchanged, you'd have to do that manually of course. If you are saying that you want to reject some, accept some, and perhaps leave others Since the tracked formatting was something you didn't want, hiding everything but the formatting changes and then accepting (or perhaps rejecting) them should be helpful. On your formatting.' Actually, you may want to clear all the options under 'Apply as you type.' When you are done, click OK twice. On the AutoFormat As You Type tab, clear 'Built-in Heading styles' and 'Define styles based In the Proofing category, click the AutoCorrect Options button. Click the File tab, and then click Options. This could be Word trying to be 'helpful' with formatting.

Help!Īlso, when comparing the document I am editing to the original document I was sent from the author, I see that somehow a lot of the formatting has changed since I was working on the document on Friday.įor example, the title of the document in the original is 'Cambria size 48,' but in my working version the title has changed to 'Cambria (Headline) size 48.'Īny idea how this happened? Is there a keyboard shortcut that I hit accidentally? This is happening or if I did something to make it happen. Obviously, I could go through them individually and accept or reject them, but I'd rather avoid such a time-consuming task if possible.Īlso, now when I make any changes to text, such as changing a lowercase letter to a capital within a paragraph of text, I am getting a formatting change in the margin in addition to the change I suggested within the body of the paragraph. There are hundreds of these changes that I didn't make. The formatting made by the original author. If I reject the changes, for instance, the text loses

These changes appear to be just the formatting that was already there in the original document, so I’m not sure where they are coming from. I saved the document Friday and returned to editing it on Monday morning to find all of these completely random formattingĬhanges (fonts, headings, italics, etc.) made to the document. I have run into a problem that I cannot seem to solve. I am using Microsoft Word 2010 to edit a document using the track changes function.

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