Don’t let a hidden comment end up in
opposing counsel’s inbox.
Master Track Changes – and the rest of Word’s Review tab – so the only edits anyone sees are the ones you meant to send.
Every legal professional has a version of the same nightmare: you hit Send on a document, and somewhere buried inside it is a tracked change, an unresolved comment, or a chunk of metadata you forgot to scrub. Now opposing counsel – or worse, the client – is reading internal commentary that was never meant to leave the firm.
It happens. A lot. There’s a reason “embarrassing metadata leak” stories make the legal news every year.
And here’s the part nobody likes to admit: most of us learned Track Changes by clicking around and hoping for the best. Which is fine, until the day it isn’t.
Is this you?
- You’ve hit Send and then immediately wondered, *Wait – did I accept all the changes? Did I clear the comments?*
- Opposing counsel sends back a 90-page redline and you can’t tell what they actually changed without reading the whole thing twice
- You’re co-editing a brief with another paralegal and the document is starting to look like a kindergarten finger-painting
- Someone told you to “scrub the metadata before it goes out,” and you nodded, but you’re not 100% sure what that actually involves
- You’d love to compare two versions of a contract and see exactly what changed – without doing it line by squinting line
If any of that sounds familiar, this course is for you.
Track Changes is more than a button on the Review tab.
Most of what gets people in trouble isn’t Track Changes itself – it’s the *other* tools sitting right next to it that nobody bothered to explain. Document comparison. Editing restrictions. Metadata inspection. The settings that control who sees what and when.
Track Changes Plus walks you through the entire Review tab, in plain English, with examples drawn from actual legal documents. By the end, you’ll know:
- Exactly what’s getting tracked, what’s getting hidden, and what’s getting transmitted when you save and send
- How to tell at a glance what changed in a redline – even one that’s 90 pages long
- How to lock down a document so co-editors can’t blow up your formatting
- How to scrub metadata cleanly before a document leaves the firm
If any of that sounds familiar, this course is for you.
What you’ll learn in Track Changes Plus
Two modules, eight lessons, about 20 minutes of focused video plus illustrated text walkthroughs (Windows and Mac):
- Automatically marking document edits with Track Changes – and configuring it to behave the way *you* want
- Showing, hiding, and printing tracked changes without confusion (or surprises)
- Reviewing, accepting, and rejecting others’ edits efficiently
- Configuring Track Changes options so it’s not constantly fighting you
- Restricting others’ edits in collaboratively edited documents – both text and Styles – so nobody can accidentally (or otherwise) wreck your formatting
- Comparing two documents to produce a clean redline/legal blackline in seconds
- Scrubbing metadata so your edits, comments, and document history don’t get broadcast to adverse parties
It’s the stuff that should have been part of your onboarding. We’ll handle that now.
Your Instructor
I’m Deborah Savadra, and I’ve spent 30 years in the legal industry as a legal assistant, paralegal, and software trainer. I’ve drafted thousands of legal documents and sat down at dozens of co-workers’ desks to untangle Word problems – including more than a few “oh no, did I just send that?” moments.
I’ve also lived through every staffing crunch and “do more with less” memo the legal industry has thrown at us. When you’re already stretched thin, the last thing you want is to be the person whose document made it into the next cautionary email forward.
The techniques in this course are the ones I’ve used for years to keep that from happening. Now they’re yours.
Stop hoping the metadata’s clean. Know it is.
In a world where you’re co-editing more documents than ever – and where one stray comment can become a problem you’ll spend the afternoon explaining – Track Changes confidence isn’t optional anymore.
Spend 20 minutes learning the Review tab properly, and you’ll never have to wonder what you forgot to strip out again.
Frequently Asked Questions
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