Word: Problems when Sorting Table while Track Changes is on

[Julian Ladbury]

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.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Bug33/Bug33 Investigation 02.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.

 

[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Thanks very much for your another valuable feedback, Julian!

I can reproduce the behavior and personally speaking, I consider it to be a
Word behavior bug of Track Changes function. For this is a product issue
not developement related, I think all I can do is helping to report this in
our internal offbug channel. That channel is monitored and handled by the
Office product group. Hope the PG will fix the issue in next SP.

Thanks again for your reporting.


Best regards,
Ji Zhou
Microsoft Online Community Support

 

[Julian Ladbury]

Colbert,

That sounds about the best that can be done. Is there any way I track this
bug's progress, or do I just have to try it out with each new release?

Julian

 

[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

Hello Julian,

The bug ID I submit is offbug 46736. You can contact CSS support engineer
or me to check the updates with this case. And as I can also reproduce
the issue in Office 2010, I would suggest you also post it in the technet
Office forum,
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/word/threads

That would be a more appropriate place for the issue.


Best regards,
Ji Zhou
Microsoft Online Community Support

 

[Julian Ladbury]

Hello Colbert,

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

Julian