WD97: Indications of Revisions Are Lost When You Copy and Paste Text

When you copy text that includes tracked changes from one Word document and paste the text into another Word document, the pasted text no longer contains the indications of revisions that were made in the original document (underlining, bolding, strikethrough, or font color).

For example, this problem occurs when you do the following:

1. In Microsoft Word, type some text in a new document.
2. Turn on Track changes while editing. To do this, point to Track Changes on the Tools menu, and then click Highlight Changes. In the Highlight Changes dialog box, click to select the Track changes when editing check box, and then click OK.
3. Make some changes to the text by adding or deleting text.
4. Turn off Track changes while editing. To do this, point to Track Changes on the Tools menu, and click Highlight Changes. In the Highlight Changes dialog box, click to clear the Track changes when editing check box, and then click OK.
5. Select the text, including the revised text.
6. On the Edit menu, click Copy.
7. In a new Word document, click Paste on the Edit menu.

To resolve the problem described in this article, obtain and install the latest Microsoft Word 97 update from the following Microsoft Web site: IMPORTANT NOTE: Microsoft Word 97 post-service release fixes are cumulative. The latest update contains all of the fixes since Service Release 2. If you install the latest update for Word 97, you do not need to install any other updates after Service Release 2.

For additional information about the fixes included in the latest update for Word 97, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem is corrected in the latest Microsoft Word 97 for Windows fix. Please see the "Resolution" section of this article for more information.