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$$ANON_USER$$ asked StefanBlom-6438 commented

in Microsoft Word, Change Tracking wont fully turn off when trying to turn it off in any document that uses ListNum Fields

In Microsoft Word, there is a Change Tracking issue when using ListNum Fields that causes alot of undesirable work when a user attempts to turn off change tracking in a document with ListNum Fields.

To demonstrate the issue:
1) use the latest copy of Microsoft Word and put in several ListNum Fields (Insert -> QuickParts -> Field -> ListNum)
2) Press return a few times to give yourself some space.
3) Turn Change Tracking on (Review -> Track Changes).
4) Type some characters to make a 'change'.
5) Now click "Accept all and stop Tracking".
6) Now remove one of those ListNum fields, and watch a cascade of changes that require additional attention to deal with, individually. This causes an issue where users will have to accept every single individual change to every single field individually.

I have received this complaint from attorneys that rely on the ListNum field (documents could have hundreds of these fields!), please let me know if this is an issue that Microsoft can fix so that we can start using change tracking again.

-Daniel@snapdone.org

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You can report this through the feedback mechanism in your version of Word (see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-give-feedback-on-microsoft-office-2b102d44-b43f-4dd2-9ff4-23cf144cfb11).

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emizhang-msft answered

Hi @$$ANON_USER$$,
I can reproduce this problem in Word 2010, Word 2013 , Word 2016 and Word 365, in my opinion this is an odd behavior in Word.
I suggest you give a feedback to Microsoft UserVoice forum:
https://word.uservoice.com/
This is a way for Microsoft collect feedback from users.


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