Thread: Word: Problems when Sorting Table while Track Changes is on

This is not a VBA problem, but this seems to be the most relevant MSDN
Managed Newsgroup for a Word problem affecting my program development.

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...ation%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.

Hello Colbert,

I posted as you suggest; see http://tinyurl.com/yh55dqq

Julian