Here’s a question about Word that’s baffling me:

Let’s assume you’re working in a document called document-changes-tracked on your computer. As the document name indicates, you’re tracking changes.

Now let’s assume you save the document on your local machine. You save it as document-changes-tracked, but you keep the document open.

Next, you accept all the changes in the document and do a “save as,” saving the document as document-changes-accepted.

You should have two versions of the exact same document on your hard drive, one with changes tracked and one with changes accepted, right?

Wrong.

For some reason I still don’t understand, document-changes-tracked reverts to some previous-to-the-save version. Which makes no sense to me. If the file has been saved, why would it revert to some sort of pre-saved version?

I would think that once document-changes-tracked is saved, that’s the new default version of the document. Why would a subsequent “save as” procedure have any effect on that saved document?

Can anyone shed and insight into this?

This entry was posted on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 2:32 pm and is filed under This 'n' That.