Red Stuff!

On Friday, I received a frantic call at 5:30pm requesting I restore a file from backup. I asked what was wrong with the file and I was told that it crashed. When Word recovered it, there was "a bunch of red stuff" in it.

I requested that the user forward me the document. When I opened it up, it was obvious that track changes was on and that the changes were highlighted in red. WTF? Red stuff? It says the name of the person and what the change was.

Yes, I turned off track changes and forwarded it back...suggesting that they look up track changes in the Word help files. I'm glad I asked before going to restore from back up tape.