Tip #83 - Word Track Changes

100 Computer Tips in 100 Days

Tip #83 - Word Track Changes

Track Changes is a valuable tool in Word that allows you to keep track of all of the revisions you make to a document so that you can easily identify them. This feature is most frequently used by people sharing documents. One person creates the document and send it to another for editing. The second person turns on Tracking Changes, makes the changes, saves them and return the document to the first person. The originator of the document is able to clearly see the editing changes. In addition, the originator is able to go through the document revision by revision accepting or rejecting the changes.

 If more than one person needs to make changes than each person would to make sure that Tracking Changes was on. Then their revisions will automatically be made in a different color, making it easy to see all of the revisions made by an individual. Moving your mouse on a revision will also show you the name of the individual and the date and time the revision was made.

To turn on Track Changes go to the Review tab and in the Tracking group click on Track Changes. Then click on Balloons (to the right of Track Changes) to see the options for how to show the markup.  My preference is to show the revisions in line. 

Happy Computing!

Diane

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