I'm trying to find a way to audit a word document that was not created using
"Track Changes", I'm trying to find out if there is a way to display when
text was modified, edited, etc....
The "when" should be visible in the File > Properties dialog, on the
Statistics tab.
The "what changes", if you need to find out, may be found by using the
Tools > Compare and Merge Documents feature. In the dialog that
appears, click the down arrow on the Merge button and choose to merge
to a new document; the result should be the same as if Track Changes
was turned on while the changes were made.
That's the theory, anyway. Up through Word 2003, the feature has a
nasty tendency to stop comparing after a certain point, mainly in
large documents where the need is most critical, and just mark
everything after that as changed. I've heard that Word 2007 has
improved the performance, but I don't have any personal experience
with it.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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