Word Wildcard Replace Bug When Track Changes

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Cannot believe that Word has such a bug: when tracking changes, wildcard replacement cannot correctly work.

I want to batch replace English parentheses with Chinese parentheses, so I use wildcard replacement:

Find What: \((*)\)
Options: Use Wildcards
Replace With: （\1）

For example, for "(abc)", the expected result is "（abc）", however, the result is "abc（）".

The solution is simple: disable track changes.

Reference: Word wildcard find & replace puts strings \1 and \2 out of sequence