FM 8 -- Track Text Edits - Paragraph Marks

FrameMaker 8.0 - After accepting all changes in a table, the change bars disappeared as expected but the paragraph marks remained green. How do I correct this?

Hi Karen,
I notice one thing that there is a "red hyphen" between "the end" in the first sentence which means there was a Deletion of a Space done, with TTE enabled.
What I believe is happening, that deletions are getting accepted over here, in this specific FrameMaker document, hence you are missing a space between them.
I would like you to do a test on the same document, so that we may verify if this is something specific to the document or not?
1) Delete a compelete word/phrase from the same sentence, repeat the same procedure that removed the space and notice this time, is the word too getting ommited along with that space?
2) Disable the TTE insert two spaces between 'the' and 'before', the Enable the TTE and write the same way as you had earlier, but begin adding text like as follows--
I placed my cursor at the ONLY_NEW_WORD_INSERTED before where I started adding text.
I wish,   I could illustrate these steps in a less confusing manner, But please try them and let me know if it clears few things for you?
Good Luck, Karen.
Thanks,
Anjaneai

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