I'm working on a document in which I have to change several passages so that they appear in italics with no surrounding quotation marks; right now they're not italicized and have quote marks.

I was having an issue where the italicization wasn't showing up as a tracked change. Then I discovered the following: if I captured the passage, including the quote marks, *before* I deleted the quote marks, then italicized them (using control-i or the font toolbar), the italics showed up as a tracked change. If I first deleted the quote marks and *then* italicized, the change didn't show up.

I'm not worried about this, since I found a workaround, but I'm curious whether anyone can explain it?