In Word 2013, I am working in a legal document with change tracking on. In the interest of not losing data due to a crash, I would like to save the document during the editing, but every time I save, the changes I've made so far turn a different color, and
if I delete something I added before the save it looks
something like this, where what I had added before the save is underlined, but what I delete after the save is shown as having been
added and then deleted.
I want the changes that I add and then delete after a save to just not show up anymore. It is of no interest to my client what I added and then revised before finalizing the document; only important it how my final version of the NEW document with changes differs from the ORIGINAL document. Is there any way to change this so that a save doesn't make me essentially a "new author" according to track change mode?
I am already a bit disappointed in how little track changes is configurable. For example, I wish there were also the option that a document which is shared among users would track the changes as if all completed by ONE author. In my case, for example, a
client will send me a document with his/her proposed changes. If I need to tweak the document before filing at the appropriate office, I don't want them to see where
I deleted what he/she added.
Thanks for any tips.