Tracking Changes in Your Document
With tracked changes, you can monitor changes that you or others make to text,
tables, floating objects, character format, or paragraph style.
Use the tracking
bar to manage and
navigate changes to
your document.
Tracked changes made
to your document
are highlighted in the
page thumbnails.
Change bubbles flag edits
made to your document.
When tracking changes, you can see:
Text that has been added, deleted, edited, or replaced in the document body, header,
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footer, footnotes, shapes, text boxes, and table cells
Tables, charts, and shapes that have been added or deleted inline
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Table cells with changes to cell type (text to number), number format (percent to
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scientific), and cell format (cell opacity or cell background)
Table formulas and values that have been added, deleted, or edited
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Floating objects that have been added, deleted, edited, moved, or resized
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Paragraph additions, deletions, or replacements
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Text with style changes
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Character and paragraph formatting changes
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New or deleted hyperlinks, Merge fields, placeholders, or bookmarks
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An added or deleted table of contents
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Edits displayed in thumbnail view
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To learn about
Go to
Starting, stopping, and pausing tracked changes
“Controlling Tracked Changes” on page 72
Modifying author color, text markup, and more
“Viewing Tracked Changes” on page 73
Tracking changes made to table cells
“Tracking Changes in Table Cells” on page 74
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Chapter 4
Reviewing and Revising Documents
Chapter 4
Reviewing and Revising Documents
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To learn about
Go to
Choosing the changes you want to keep
“Accepting and Rejecting Changes” on page 75
Saving a copy of your document without changes
or comments
“Saving with Tracked Changes Off” on page 76