Cursor jumps to the end of the document when deleting a line in Word and have Track Changes enabled (Word for Windows)

Anonymous
2021-03-01T17:25:45+00:00

I work with a document some others has created. In the document Enter has been jused quite many times to create/start a new line. When I use Backspace or Delete to remove the line and tie the sentencens together and then add a space between the sentences, then the cursor jumps all the way to the end of the document. 

When a turn off Track Changes, then it does not happen. I would assume this to be an error/flaw i MS Word and wonder if it is a workaround for the issue or if it would be fixed. I need to have Track Changes enabled.

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-08-02T05:33:02+00:00

    Just adding my voice to this issue, in case it helps stoke the fire at Microsoft to fix this issue. It is so hard to think of Word as being buggy software, but this jumping to the end of document thing drove me so bonkers, I started working in my doc without track changes on, which negates most of the value I get out of using Word in the first place. Please, please fix this! I am using the latest Word version from the Microsoft Cloud on a MacBook Pro running Big Sur 11.4. There are several other things I can't stand about this latest "upgrade," like the way the the huge box pops up under a misspelled word when I go to correct it. This mostly just gets in the way of my cursor. Also can't stand that when I change the term I am searching for in the Find bar, the first letter I type never shows up, because Word uses that first letter to delete the previous word I was was searching on instead of just typing over it. But the cursor jumping to the end of the document is the real killer for me. Thanks, Mike

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-04-25T05:43:21+00:00

    Ii is highly annoying and since I pay for my subscription I would expect a better solution

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-04-21T14:40:23+00:00

    I think I have found a solution to this annoying problem; editors cannot turn off track changes of course because they need to see all changes they make, so that of course rules out turning off track changes, one way of avoiding this problem.

    But I have been having success keeping track changes on and avoiding this problem by switching the track changes view to "Simple Markup" rather than "All Markup." This does not as far as I can tell change anything. I edit as I see fit, the edits show up whenever I switch to "All Markup," and I don't get dumped to the bottom of the document.

    I'm interested in others' experience with this fix or go-around.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-04-07T18:55:16+00:00

    I don't know if it only happens with one of those views. I only work in 'Simple Markup' and rarely work in 'All Markup' (it's much too cluttered to work in). It could just be the toggling between the two that 'resets' the document in some way. In any case, it's only started to happen inside the last 4-6 weeks. It's never done that before, in the 15 years I've been using Word.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-06-14T12:12:49+00:00

    I've been having the same issue. Also a professional editor. It's driving me barmy. Microsoft, please fix this...

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