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Misusing Word's Track Changes feature can turn your form to garbage

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Updated at December 29th, 2023

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Clicking the "Fill" command starts a cascade of changes, perhaps thousands of them. Some you see, many more happen behind the scenes. If you have Word's Track Changes feature turned on when that happens, there's no telling what will happen, except it will be bad!

 

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