Feather Touch Editing

I had to deal with this problem when I copied and pasted a chapter from a book into a new document, only to discover that the tracked changes had not been copied. I wanted the tracked changes in the new document, and was surprised to find them missing. Googling showed the way. I had forgotten the technique after learning it once, and I'm hoping that writing this down here will help me remember next time. The rule is simple: before copying and pasting the text, turn Track Chan

A misplaced horizontal line in an MS Word document I was editing had to go. The problem was that it stubbornly dug its heels in and refused to budge. I placed the cursor at the beginning of the next line and backspaced. Nope. I tied deleting it from the previous line. Nope again. What was going on? As usual, Googling the problem revealed the answer. (I never cease to marvel at how many features MS Word has under its hood.) Everything is explained in the linked article (see be