In this tutorial, we will teach you how to track changes in Word. The track changes option in Word allows you to mark all the changes that are made to the document. When reviewing and making corrections to a particular document, track changes can be used to tell the.
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When you use the Word 2007 Track Changes feature to monitor who makes additions and deletions in a document, you can customize Word to show these changes in different ways. Take advantage of how you can adjust tracked changes to make your document easier to navigate and edit.
Here’s how to view — and change — how Word 2007 marks tracked changes. You can change the formatting of how insertions, deletions, and moved text look.
1On the Review tab of the Ribbon, in the Tracking group, click the down arrow of the Track Changes button to open the Track Changes menu.
Open the Track Changes Options dialog box from here.
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2Choose the Change Track Options menu item.
The Track Changes Options dialog box opens.
3Make your preference settings from the options here.
You can change the color assignments per author, as well as use of underlining, strikethrough, text color, bold, italic, and other formatting choices for how insertions, deletions, and moved text look.
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When you and your teammates collaborate on a document, turn on Track Changes to mark the edits each person makes to the document.
Turn on Track Changes
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Select Review > Track Changes.
Show the changes made to a document
Select Review, and select a view option from the Display for Review list.
Simple Markup places a red line in the margin where a change has been made.
All Markup shows each person’s edits in different colors of text and with strikethrough formatting.
No Markup shows how the incorporated changes will look.
Original shows the original document.
In the Show Markup list, select the types of markups to display: Comments, Ink, Insertions and Deletions, and Formatting.
Turn off Track Changes
On the Review tab, in the Tracking group, select Track Changes. New changes will not be marked, but changes that were already marked remain.
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