Combining Documents while keeping tracked changes in both

[New York Interactive Media]

I have one document that has many tracked changes. I need to combine it with
another long document that also has many tracked changes. The new document
must retain the original tracked changes from the second document, so I know
who has done what. Is there a way to do this is Word 2003? It seems like it
would be easy, but it doesn't work. If I paste or insert the 2nd document it
just shows the insert or paste as 1 change. It looks like version 2007 may be
able to do it, but I don't have that available.
Thanks for any help or clues.

 

[Beth Melton]

The functionality you are looking for is also available in previous versions
of Word. The Compare and Merge Documents command can be found under the
Tools menu.

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[PamC]

Also, if you are combining different document sections each with its own
revisions by different people, paste file into to other but make sure track
changes is turned off on both files. I usually do this with the changes
showing, but I don't know if that is necessary.

Pam