Can't delete text

[Pat Kelecy]

I've been experiencing some odd editing behavior in Word XP. If I move the
cursor , say, to the end of a sentence and press backspace serveral times,
it will delete the period at the end of the sentence but nothing more (the
cursor just sits there even though I'm hitting the backspace key).
However, this only happens with certain sentences in the document. With
others it works as it should -deleting the period and characters as
expected.

Does anyone have any idea what might be going on with this?

Thanks for the help. -Pat

 

[Pat Kelecy]

Yes - you were right. I selected Tool -> Track Changes and a bunch of them
showed up. How do I turn this off? SelectingTools->Track Changes again
doesn't seem to toggle it off, as I would expect. I'm confused on how this
works (seems like it was simpler in earlier versions of Word).

Thanks for the help. -Pat

 

[Mark Tangard]

Pat,

The important concept here is that you need to get *rid* of the
tracked changes (by "accepting" or "rejecting" them), not turn
them off. (Unfortunately for this, Word 2002 makes it *easier*
to just hide them, so they're out of sight & out of mind, until
problems like this arise and the dead rise & walk the earth, etc.)

It's very likely that whoever hid them in the first place did so
because he/she wanted to say "OK" to the changes. What he/she
should've done is Accept All, so *IF* you're sure that was the
intention, you should probably do that too, by clicking: Tools->
Track Changes-> Accept or Reject Changes-> Accept All. [Note:
These are the Word 2000 commands; may have changed in 2002,
which I don't use. Someone wanna confirm this?]

BUT: Word 2002 has different "views" for Tracked Changes that
affect how they're displayed and (maybe) how they can be edited.
I've found that the vast majority of users don't understand these
at all, but there's a possibility your doc's originator did, so
be sure, if you can, that his/her intention was to accept the
changes rather than just concealing them temporarily.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In Word 2002, the Reviewing toolbar has separate buttons (menus) for
Accepting and Rejecting. The Accept one includes "Accept All Changes in
Document."

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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all may benefit.

Pat,

The important concept here is that you need to get *rid* of the
tracked changes (by "accepting" or "rejecting" them), not turn
them off. (Unfortunately for this, Word 2002 makes it *easier*
to just hide them, so they're out of sight & out of mind, until
problems like this arise and the dead rise & walk the earth, etc.)

It's very likely that whoever hid them in the first place did so
because he/she wanted to say "OK" to the changes. What he/she
should've done is Accept All, so *IF* you're sure that was the
intention, you should probably do that too, by clicking: Tools->
Track Changes-> Accept or Reject Changes-> Accept All. [Note:
These are the Word 2000 commands; may have changed in 2002,
which I don't use. Someone wanna confirm this?]

BUT: Word 2002 has different "views" for Tracked Changes that
affect how they're displayed and (maybe) how they can be edited.
I've found that the vast majority of users don't understand these
at all, but there's a possibility your doc's originator did, so
be sure, if you can, that his/her intention was to accept the
changes rather than just concealing them temporarily.

--
Mark Tangard <[email protected]>, Microsoft Word MVP
Please reply only to the newsgroup, not by private email.
Note well: MVPs do not work for Microsoft.
"Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters

Yes - you were right. I selected Tool -> Track Changes and a bunch of them
showed up. How do I turn this off? SelectingTools->Track Changes again
doesn't seem to toggle it off, as I would expect. I'm confused on how this
works (seems like it was simpler in earlier versions of Word).

Thanks for the help. -Pat

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[Pat Kelecy]

Thanks Mark and Suzanne. I think I understand better now what's going on
with all of this.

Pat

Pat,

The important concept here is that you need to get *rid* of the
tracked changes (by "accepting" or "rejecting" them), not turn
them off. (Unfortunately for this, Word 2002 makes it *easier*
to just hide them, so they're out of sight & out of mind, until
problems like this arise and the dead rise & walk the earth, etc.)

It's very likely that whoever hid them in the first place did so
because he/she wanted to say "OK" to the changes. What he/she
should've done is Accept All, so *IF* you're sure that was the
intention, you should probably do that too, by clicking: Tools->
Track Changes-> Accept or Reject Changes-> Accept All. [Note:
These are the Word 2000 commands; may have changed in 2002,
which I don't use. Someone wanna confirm this?]

BUT: Word 2002 has different "views" for Tracked Changes that
affect how they're displayed and (maybe) how they can be edited.
I've found that the vast majority of users don't understand these
at all, but there's a possibility your doc's originator did, so
be sure, if you can, that his/her intention was to accept the
changes rather than just concealing them temporarily.

--
Mark Tangard <[email protected]>, Microsoft Word MVP
Please reply only to the newsgroup, not by private email.
Note well: MVPs do not work for Microsoft.
"Life is nothing if you're not obsessed." --John Waters

Yes - you were right. I selected Tool -> Track Changes and a bunch of them
showed up. How do I turn this off? SelectingTools->Track Changes again
doesn't seem to toggle it off, as I would expect. I'm confused on how this
works (seems like it was simpler in earlier versions of Word).

Thanks for the help. -Pat

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the more
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