Microsoft KB Archive/917636

= You cannot use the copy and paste operation to copy text that contains tracked changes from a source document to a new document in Word =

Article ID: 917636

Article Last Modified on 5/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Word 2003
 * Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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SYMPTOMS
Consider the following scenario. You copy text from a Microsoft Word source document. This text contains tracked changes. Then, you paste this text to a new document. In this scenario, the tracked changes are not pasted to the new document.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, turn off the Track Changes feature in the source document before you copy and paste the text that contains tracked changes to a new document.

Use one of the following methods to turn off the Track Changes feature in the source document:
 * On the Tools menu, click Track Changes.
 * On the Status bar, double-click TRK.

Note After you copy and paste the text that contains tracked changes to a new document, you may have to turn on the Track Changes feature in the source document.



MORE INFORMATION
For more information about how to track and manage changes in a Microsoft Word document, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

305216 How to track and manage changes in a Word 2002 and a Word 2003 document

326528 How to track and manage changes in Word 97 and in Word 2000

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