Tracking and Shift+F3 Shortcut - not showing tracked changes in Word

Question

Hi.

I'm not sure whether this is a bug or a feature, but when marking up documents in Word, if I use the shortcut for capitalisation (Shift+F3) this doesn't track as a change, despite having tracking turned on.

Even if I cycle through the lowercase, Capitalised and UPPERCASE settings using (Shift+F3) the change doesn't track.

I have Office 365 ProPlus updated to latest version.  

Thanks,

David.

Answer 1

Hi David,

My name is Craig and I am an Independent Adviser. Thanks for choosing the Microsoft Community. I'll be happy to assist today. Please tell me what Markup option are you using?

* Simple Markup may not show the change you are making

* All Markup should show those changes

You can adjust the setting on the Review Tab, in the Track Changes group. There will be 4 options in the Markup menu: Simple Markup, All Markup, No Markup, and Original. (See Attached Screenshot)

In the Show Markup menu, make sure to check off Formatting

Answer 2

As far as I know, this behavior is by design. Changing from sentence case to uppercase to lowercase and so on is not recognized as a tracked change in Word.

Answer 3

Thanks for the response, but this has no effect on the issue I've identified. 

Turning to All Markup, and including Formatting, still doesn't track the capitalisation shortcut.

Answer 4

Thanks for your response. 

It might be useful to include an option for this, as I use capitalisation to capture legal definition changes, which might be missed if they aren't tracked. 

Isn't there a mode that tracks and displays every change, formatting or otherwise? Changing the letters to capitals would be a formatting change? 

Thanks

David

Answer 5

By default, Word tracks formatting changes, such as adding italic to a text range. However, changing the case is never tracked in Word. You can post feedback on this in the Uservoice forum at https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304924-word-for-windows-desktop-application.