How do you merge Tracked changes from 2 different documents and retain

[hquinonez]

I have a user who would like to merge tracked changes from one document and insert them into another document that has tracked changes turned on. Here's an example...

User 1 has to answer questions 1-5, user 2 has to answer questions 6-10, and user 3 answers questions 10-15. Each user wants to track changes to their document. Now, we'd like to merge all the questions onto one sheet, yet still show the tracked changes for all respective sheets on the newly created main sheet. Yet retain the changes that the initial user created.

The only way that we've been able to do this, was to create one document, import the information from another document, and in doing so... the imported text became the newly created changes to the main document (anything that was imported to the main document became new changes, and lost the identity of the original creator/editor).

If anyone has any suggestions, they'd be greatly appreciated!!!

 

[dianemarie]

Hello, this is straight from Help, and it has worked for me. I hope it helps.

If reviewers have returned changes and comments in separate copies of the original document, you can merge all their changes into the original document and then review each change from there.

1. Open the original document into which you want to merge changes.
2. On the Tools menu, click Merge Documents.
3. Open one of the documents that has changes to be merged.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 until all copies of the document are merged.

Microsoft Word displays all the reviewers’ tracked changes and comments, each reviewer represented by a different color. You can the review comments and accept or reject changes.