Track changes

You can track changes to body text in a word-processing document (but not text in text boxes or tables). Changed text appears in a different color than the surrounding text, and change bars appear in the margin. You can choose whether tracked changes are visible, and how they appear.

You can review tracked changes and accept or reject them individually or all together.

Track changes to text

If you need to make changes that you don’t want to be tracked, move the Tracking slider in the review toolbar to Paused, make changes, then turn it back on.

To turn off change tracking completely, click Change tracking menu button, then choose Turn Off Tracking.

View and hide tracked changes

Accept or reject changes

To be sure all changes are visible, click Change tracking menu button in the review toolbar, then set the change tracking view to Markup.

You can accept or reject changes in any of these ways:

See Add comments and highlight text to learn how to change the author name and markup color.