I often give feedback on lots of documents with Word. Unfortunately, if a document was saved without tracking changes, I have to (remember to) turn it on. Unfortunately, it happens too often that I begin correcting a document and realize 10+ changes in that I have not enabled tracking.
The solution, of course, is to save the document and then do a compare.
But the Compare workflow is click-heavy. It has no default to use the current document for one of the documents in the compare. I have to save the current document to a new file (not so bad), but then I have to select the old and new files through a file dialog (that is really clicky).
My question: is there a faster way to recover the changes you've made after forgetting to turn on track changes?
Most software source code editors accept the current document as one of the files for a compare operation, but it seems Word always wants a saved file (and its GUI is too dumb to propose the file that was recently or is currently opened as a default or even at the top of the alphabetical list of files).
Another solution would be a way to have "Track changes" enabled on any document I open. However, from reading this I get the impression that it's only settable for new documents.