So I have my dissertation in word format which I opened in Libre. It was all orange and underlined and whatnot so I went into track changes and turned off show changes. I made A TON more edits and added bits in and stuff and then saved the document. I’ve come back to it and when I’ve opened it the new edits are there but all of the previous track changes and new changes are ALL part of the document. I can’t work out where I’ve gone wrong :((((((
PLEASE HELP
And what did you expect actually? Both previous and new texts are saved in a document, that is the essence of tracking changes.
So I have my dissertation in word format which I opened in Libre
Just don’t mix formats to avoid problems.
Do you mean that the changes inherited from Word turned into plain content (as if both old and new variants were somehow got accepted)? That would be a bug. If you can provide steps how to reproduce that (e.g., you have some original DOCX with tracked changes, which produces the incorrect result if edited in LibreOffice), then please file a bug report and attach that original document there for reproduction.
The Old changes which I had made in word have all become part of the document. So as if it was multicoloured and strikes and underlined but its all in normal black? Probably a bug like you say but I don’t have the original document as I saved over it with the new changes in libre. Suppose the only thing to do is to go through the document and manually change it all to make sense again? Or combine an older version with the new version somehow? What does ‘compare document’ do exactly and what do the different colours mean in libre??
If you don’t want to track changes and also don’t want to see so far existing changes never again then