Microsoft Word – Review and Track Changes

When you’re working on a document with other people or editing a document yourself, and you need Word to mark all additions, deletions, moves, and formatting changes, turn on Track Changes to see every change.

Here’s what you do:

1. Open the document to be reviewed.

2. Click the Review tab, and then on the Track Changes button, select Track Changes:

Now Word is in Simple Markup view. Word marks up any changes that anyone makes to the document and shows you where the changes are by displaying a line near the margin.

Word shows a little balloon where someone’s made a comment. To see a comment, click the comment balloon.

To see the changes, click the line near the margin. That switches Word into All Markup view.

If you’d rather see all the comments, but not all the changes, click Show Comments.

Note: You can prevent someone else from turning Track Changes off by locking Track Changes on with a password. (Be sure to remember the password so you can turn Track Changes off when you’re ready to.)