While Track Changes is easy to use (and if you set up your Status Bar for one-click access, even easier), sometimes it can do some baffling things, like marking all the changes with the same color and with the generic “Author” rather than each co-author’s name. Why does it do that? Here are a few…
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.
I’ll admit it: I’m a fan of Track Changes. But some people just don’t want to use Track Changes. Whether they simply don’t know how to use it or they’re just plain wary of it, they usually just send you a revised version of whatever you sent them, leaving you to figure out exactly what they did. Or, they do use Track Changes, and now you have two or more redlines to review. Here’s how (and when) to use Compare Documents versus Combine Documents.
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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