Comparison tool incorrectly recognizes moves as additions/deletions?

Question

I have two versions of a document that are almost identical, although a lot of the text has been moved around. Unfortunately, most of the moves the comparison tool wrongly treats as additions/deletions (red) rather than moves (green). Is there any way to fix this and somehow have the comparison tool correctly recognize the moves for what they are?

Answer 1

As far as I know, Word tracks an edit as a Move under these circumstances: (a) when you drag & drop a whole text paragraph or (b) when you move a paragraph up or down using Alt+Shift+Up arrow (or Alt+Shift+Down arrow).

Answer 2

I think word only marks a move when that whole block stays untouched… try Compare again with Track moves on and keep it as one clean chunk; if it still misreads, copy that bit into a new doc and compare, that usualy clears it.