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  • Show, hide or print tracked changes WITHOUT creating a new version

    Word users often think they have to accept all the tracked changes in their redline to a new copy to see how the document would look in its final form (what I hear referred to as a “clean copy”). Not true! You can control whether the Track Changes markup shows on the page without altering the status of the marked changes. Here’s how.

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  • How to keep Track Changes from broadcasting your confidential data

    Track Changes is a great feature, but if you don’t know where the pitfalls are, you could wind up in serious trouble. Here are a few things you should watch out for.

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  • The case of the shrunken comment balloon

    Ever had one of your comment balloons in Microsoft Word suddenly shrink without warning and become unreadable? Admittedly, it’s a pretty obscure problem, but if it ever happens to you, you want to make note of this fix.

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  • Customizing the Status Bar

    There’s a whole host of ways you can make the various Microsoft Office applications easier to use. In fact, most users don’t take full advantage of the options for customizing these applications to make the Office suite work better for them.

    Today, we’re going to talk about one of the easiest customizations: the Status Bar.

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  • Reviewing, accepting and rejecting others’ changes in Track Changes

    Once you’ve produced a redlined document with Word’s Track Changes feature, you can finalize the document with the Accept and Reject buttons on the toolbar. Here’s how.

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  • Inserting comments with Track Changes

    What if you (or your attorney) don’t want to actually change a particular section of a document, but just want to ask a question, point out a problem, just plain make a comment? Here’s a tutorial on how to insert a comment using Word’s Track Changes feature.

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  • Showing, hiding and printing tracked changes

    Once you know how to turn on Word’s Track Changes feature, you may want to be able to see the document in its original state and with all the changes without having to accept or reject changes. Here’s an easy way to do that (with some caveats)

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  • Automatically marking document edits with Track Changes

    Ever want to be able to automatically create a redline showing your document changes? You can, with Word’s Track Changes feature. Here are the basics.

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Module 1 Track Changes-
Lesson 1 Automatically marking document edits with Track Changes  
Lesson 2 Inserting comments with Track Changes  
Lesson 3 Showing, hiding and printing tracked changes  
Lesson 4 Reviewing, accepting and rejecting others’ changes in Track Changes  
Lesson 5 Configuring Track Changes Options  
Module 2 Beyond Track Changes+
Lesson 1 Restricting others’ edits in collaboratively-edited documents  
Lesson 2 Comparing two documents to produce a redline  - Preview  
Lesson 3 Scrubbing metadata out of your documents  

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