Track Changes now tracks changes to changes from the same person and is causing alot of extra work during the editing process.

I work with Track Changes on and in the past versions, 2010 and before, I was able to open a document make changes and it attributes the changes to me.  All OK so far.  now I save and close the document.  On re-opening the document I see a flag that Word is going to continue my edits, still OK.  But when I correct a line that I added during the previous editing period the system flags this as a new change.  It is tracking changes to my changes.  This is bad.  I am still editing the document that I started editing the previous day.

How can I configure Word to behave like it did in version 2010 and before.

This is adding much frustration and time to accept the changes to my changes but not the final changes to the original.

This is a bad addition to 2013. I need a way to correct this.

Click File tab | Options. In the General category, is "Always use these values regardless of sign in to Office" selected or cleared? If it is selected, try clearing it (and vice versa).

Edit: If you are working with documents saved locally, keeping the option selected makes more

I tried that before.  I just tried it again.  it was checked.  I closed Word and reopened a document, then I changed an earlier change and it shows as new tracking with the same user.

Some other info.  all documents that I am working with were from before the upgrade.

I just created a new document to test if it is a SharePoint Check in/out issue.

But the new document works as expected when on hard drive or in Sharepoint.

it seems to be only the documents created before 2013.

Are you sure that your user name is identical to the user name on your older files then?

Yes, in fact the edits were started in the document after conversion to 2013.  And Word flags me to 'continue where I left off' but it still makes me accept or delete changes to my changes.

As I move through the documents, some behave correctly and some do not.  Do you know of any file specific parameters that I can look at to see what is going on?

I just tried regenerating the file.

I used 'Save As' and created a new drawings.  the first edits to previous changes did not behave correctly.  But after turning off track changes, saving and closing, re-opening.  then turning on track changes,

now I can edit my changes and they behave correctly, even the changes made before the creation of the new file.

It is a pain but at least I have a way that I can convert files to usable files again.

This is very strange.

Out of curiosity, what was the user name/editor name specified in the problem files? Was it identical to the user name in the Word Options?

I'm trying to follow your suggestions about regenerating the file, but I'm having no luck. I think I'm doing something wrong.

To recreate a file, copy all content, minus the final paragraph mark, and then paste into a newly created blank document.

To show/hide nonprinting marks, such as paragraph marks (), click the button on the Hom

I forgot about this.  The issue is resolved but I am not sure what the fix was.

The issue may have been with something not being right with the shift from Office 2010 to 2013.

The files were processed to remove all trach changes, checked in and out of ProjectWise and then they behaved properly.

Thanks for the responses anyway.

Richard.

Stefan, That doesn't seem to work for me. I do the following: Show paragraph marks, copy the entire document excluding the last few characters (to be safe). Start a new document using the same (old) template, paste the text into the new document and manually retype the last few characters, save the new document in .doc (not .docx) format. Then I close the new .doc and reopen. Then I turn on Track Changes and type a few words. I close the new .doc document and reopen. When I delete the few words that I added previously, it crosses them out, even though I'm the same author.

For some people, selecting "Always use these values regardless of sign in to Office" simply doesn't seem to work as one would expect. I don't know if this is a bug or if it is by desig

This just bit me with Office 2013. Edited a .doc file with revision tracking, came back a few days later and it was tracking changes to my changes, in a different color. No way I could send it to the customer for review that way.

Saving as .docx, turning tracking off and on, didn't help.

Had to load an XP virtual machine running Word 2000 so I could finish editing the document (which worked fine).

Mark Berry
MCB Systems

So the newer Windows OS is the culprit. I wouldn't expect tha