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Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

Shane Lowry — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:55:42 -0000

This was too funny. I was working on a document and trying to get the comments out and stumbled across this page.

Luckily not as disastrous a consequence, but funny none the less.

Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

r4 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:34:12 -0000

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Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

Dave Carter — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:28:31 -0000

At a former employer, a friend didn't notice that the spellchecker had done a global replace on "engr" (an abbreviation of "engineer") with the word "negro" before he sent it to a very wide distribution list. Hilarious result in many of the replacements, as you can imagine....

Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

Buy Business Note — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:34:46 -0000

Very good tip. I would have never thought that such a small thing could cause such a major problem. Sometimes we have too much technology for our own good <g>

Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

Alex — Mon, 12 May 2008 03:55:35 -0000

A rabbi, a priest and an imam walk into a bar...

Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

antje — Sun, 11 May 2008 19:43:41 -0000

Those poor guys.... lol..... good thing they have a sense of humour

Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

ash — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:42:31 -0000

From what I understand there's a way to clean documents in Word so that tracking info is removed (so you can still use it for editing, but create a document copy without change history).

Nice little summary here :http://www.usatoday.com/tec...

Re: Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

Mark Dykeman — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:19:43 -0000

Oy vey.