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Can you confirm this bug in Word for Mac 2008? - Greg - 10-28-2009
Create a new document. Type:
"The quick brown fox jum ped over a lazy dog."
Turn on change tracking.
Run spelling/grammar check.
At my end, when I correct "jum ped", it doesn't display correctly in the spellcheck window. Instead, it acts like I haven't typed anything, even though it ultimately shows the change when I click
Re: Can you confirm this bug in Word for Mac 2008? - space-time - 10-28-2009
I can reproduce it in 2004
Re: Can you confirm this bug in Word for Mac 2008? - gabester - 10-28-2009
I believe this is behavior as expected - track changes puts a backspace dash in between jum and ped when you delete it; because you've got track changes mode on this is even true in the spelling window.
Visually, it doesn't look right but because track changes are on that's what it's supposed to do.
I hate using track changes because it's very poor at accurately updating the actual text on screen and makes it quite difficult to read a document that has been heavily edited under track changes until after the changes are accepted; but you accept the changes you can't see what it was before, so it's kind of self-defeating.
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Re: Can you confirm this bug in Word for Mac 2008? - M A V I C - 10-28-2009
gabester wrote:
I hate using track changes because it's very poor at accurately updating the actual text on screen and makes it quite difficult to read a document that has been heavily edited under track changes until after the changes are accepted; but you accept the changes you can't see what it was before, so it's kind of self-defeating.
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You can just disable the highlighting of changes and read it as the latest version. The changes are accepted or rejected at that point.
Re: Can you confirm this bug in Word for Mac 2008? - Greg - 10-28-2009
gabester,
At my end, if I place the cursor to the left of the "p" and hit
Re: Can you confirm this bug in Word for Mac 2008? - freeradical - 10-28-2009
It's because that is not the correct Fox Message. Here's the correct message. :-)
THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890.
Yes - I've worked with teletype machines...