When you click “next,” it highlights the next change that your editor made. Over on the upper right part of the toolbar, you have the review buttons. Using the Accept/Reject changes feature took me a bit longer with Word 2010, because they made separate buttons for “comments only” vs “all changes.” Step Two: Accepting and Rejecting Changes There’s also a handy line on the left-hand side to let you skim through and notice paragraphs that may contain tiny changes, such as comma deletions/additions. (Usually red, if you’re the first person making changes.) Deletions will be strikethroughs. Once you’ve turned on Track Changes, anything that is added or deleted will be tracked in a different color. After you’re done incorporating changes and using the feature, click it again to turn it off. Click Track Changes once, and you turn it on. When you hover over it, it lets you know the keyboard shortcut as well as what it does. The “Track Changes” button is right in the middle of the review toolbar. In the upper menu, locate the Review tab and click on it. I’ll run through all three steps in Word 2010 as well as the older version. Sorry the embedded images are so small.īest to start simply. Once you start using it, it’s hard to imagine editing, or incorporating edits, without it!Ĭlick any image to make it larger. I’m taking it upon myself to provide a layman’s guide to MS Word’s Track Changes feature. This evening’s post is about a tool that I use quite a bit in both my jobs, the day job and the writing job, and I’ve heard through the Twitter grapevine that there are a number of writers who haven’t heard of this tool, or don’t know how to use it.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |