Track Changes to Long MS Word Document TOC???

TenOC wrote:
Question for you MS Word experts.

Edit: Finally got it all to post. I do not know what was wrong.

I have a long 100+ page document. I will be making a number of changes (25 to 30) to the document. I know how to use the track changes and compare two documents features in Word. What I want to do is create a Table of Contents or index (not sure which will work best) or maybe even a footnote to track the changes. I do not think I can use bookmarks because as I understand it bookmarks do not follow the text, but stay on the same page (like turning down the corner of a page in a paper book)

I know how to create a TOC using headings styles -- the document current has one. The current TOC and page numbering will of course be a "change" -- so the 25 changes become 200+ when the additions and deletes in the "Reviewing Pane" are displayed. A few years ago I create a TOC using manual field codes.

Questions: What is the best way to create a list of the changes so the reader can quickly find the changes?

Must I create the list (TOC) manually or is there a way to display only the changes?

If I use footnotes, can I create the TOC of the footnotes? How? As a test, I tried to use the footnote style in a TOC but I could not get the footnotes to show up. The Heading 1 and Heading 2 worked OK. I have the footnote style set as a level 1 TOC -- the same as the Heading 1

I don't have a new enough version of Word in front of me to say for sure BUT, my version has a "comments" that you can add in comments which are separate from the main portion of the document..

Additionally there is a way to "hide" text so it won't be typically seen or printed.

On newer versions of Word, there should be a "Annotations" which I suspect be similar to the comments of mine. Annotations typically will be hidden from printing but can be viewed on screen. My Company uses this feature to track changes on our QA "controlled" documents.