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      Tuesday, March 02, 2010 5:44 PM
       
       
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      I posted the following in an MSDN managed newsgroup (see http://tinyurl.com/ylxsroo). The MS engineer suggested I also post here.

      I have found some undesired results when sorting a table while Track Changes
      is switched on. Paring things down to their bare bones, the following
      procedures reproduce them.

      1. Start with a 3-row table like this:

      Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
      1 AB Row A
      2 YZ Row B

      2. Turn on Track Changes,
      3. Set the Tracking View to Final (ie not showing markup)

      4. Change the table to this:

      Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
      2 CD Row A
      1 WX Row B

      5. Sort the table using the defaults Word offers (ie has header rows,
      numeric sort)

      The expected result would be this (which is indeed what you get if Track
      Changes is off):


      Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
      1 WX Row B
      2 CD Row A

      However, this is what you actually get:

      Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
      21 YZWX Row B
      12 ABCD Row A

      These results were obtained using Word 2007 SP2. The document on my SkyDrive
      at
      http://cid-75e3e350f569b887.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Bug33/Bug33%20Investigation%2002.doc
      can be used to reproduce the problem. It also describes how things can get
      even worse when the Tracking View is set to Final Showing Markup.
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      • Tuesday, March 02, 2010 11:16 PM
         
         
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        In my experience, tracked changes can result in all manner of oddities of which this is certainly one of them.

        Perhaps a workaround is in order.
        1. Turn off revision tracking
        2. Insert an extra column at the end of the table
        3. Copy the column you want to sort on into the new column
        4. Sort the table on that column (you will notice the revisions are accepted in this column)
        5. Delete the extra column
        6. Turn on the revision tracking again

        This won't mark the reordering as a revision (which IMHO is good) but everything else should be as you might expect.
           
        • Wednesday, March 03, 2010 8:05 AM
           
           
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          Thanks for the suggested circumvention. However, I should have made clear that my intention in posting here was that the Office team pick this up as a probable Word bug. Indeed, the MS engineer on the MSDN newsgroup has submitted it as such internally.