WD2000: Err Msg: "Word found no tracked changes." (211608)

ERROR MESSAGE

When you work in a master document containing a subdocument that has tracked changes, the Accept, Reject, Accept All, and Reject All buttons in the Accept or Reject Changes dialog box are unavailable (dimmed) so you can't review your changes. Or, when you click Find in the Accept or Reject Changes dialog box, the following error message appears:

Word found no tracked changes.

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8FBEE1D3-C5BB-4A36-A2F7-DC63DE2A818C

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.

THINGS TO TRY

You have not expanded your subdocument.

Open your master document.
If your subdocument is not expanded, you will see a hyperlink in place of the subdocument. On the Outlining toolbar (on the View menu, point to Toolbars and then click to select Outlining), click Expand Subdocuments.

NOTE: This opens your subdocument inside the master document.
On the Tools menu, point to Track Changes, and then click Accept or Reject Changes.

You have not opened your subdocument.

Open your master document.
If your subdocument is not expanded, you will see a hyperlink in place of the subdocument. Click the hyperlink.

NOTE: This opens your subdocument as a separate file.
On the Tools menu, point to Track Changes, and then click Accept or Reject Changes.

MORE INFORMATION

When you open a master document, all subdocuments are collapsed; that is, each subdocument appears as a hyperlink. Word cannot display tracked changes (revisions) in a subdocument if the subdocument hyperlink is visible.

You can click a hyperlink to open the subdocument and work on it in its own window. If you prefer to work on the master document as a whole, you can expand the subdocuments and work on them in place or switch to normal view.