Today’s post about track changes in Word is contributed by Louis Broome, a manager and writer for Office.com.

1. Track Changes In Word 10
2. Track Changes Mac Pages
3. How To Track Changes In Word 2013
4. How To Use Track Changes For Mac
5. Track Changes In Excel For Mac

To turn Track Changes off, on the Review tab, in the Tracking group, click the Track Changes button (the paper & pencil with the healthy orange glow, pictured below). Here’s the relevant piece of Word real estate:

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Track changes in Pages on Mac. You can track changes to body text and text in text boxes, shapes and footnotes (including document and section endnotes). When tracking is turned on, changed text appears in a different colour to the surrounding text, and change bars appear in the margin. Locate the Track Changes icon in the Tracking panel; be sure that the Track Changes is switched off. If Track Changes is switched on, as in the screen shot below, make sure you click on the ON icon to turn this feature off. If you continue with the Track Changes feature on, your changes will be recorded. Step 3: In the following screen shot, we have disabled the Track Changes feature.

Track Changes In Word 10

If your document contains tracked changes, like this:

and you want to get rid of them, on the Review tab, in the Changes group, you can Accept or Reject each change or All Changes in Document:

Tracked changes can be hidden, which might or might not be a good thing. Either way, take a moment to become familiar with the Display for Review drop-down list and its four options:

Final: Show Markup shows all tracked changes.
Final hides tracked changes to show the document with all proposed changes included.
Original: Show Markup shows the original text with tracked changes and comments.
Original shows the document before any changes were made.

If your Track Changes needs are more sophisticated than the above, choose from this list of the Top 5 Track Changes-related videos, articles, and training courses on Office.com/support:

Track Changes Mac Pages

• This brief article on how to Turn Track Changes on or off includes a cool tip: You can customize the status bar to add an indicator that tells you when Track Changes is on or off (the Word 2007 version is here).
• If all you want to do is turn off Track Changes, watch this video.
• Demo: Remove tracked changes from Word 2007 documents shows you how to permanently remove revision marks in a Word 2007 document.
• Revise documents with Track Changes and Comments in Word 2007, a training course, will teach you how to review, accept, reject, and hide tracked changes in Word 2007, and along the way you get to practice.
• Track changes while you edit covers the basics of how to track changes in Word 2007 while you edit, and how to change the way that markup is displayed (the Word 2003 article is here).

Bonus track (changes):

Remove tracked changes and comments from a document shows how to ensure that track changes and comments are not left in your Word 2007 documents when you distribute them.

—Louis Broome

Office 2011 for Mac can keep track of the changes made to a Word document, who made them, and when the changes were made. But these changes aren’t tracked until you turn on the Track Changes feature in Word 2011 for Mac; then, you can send the document to others for edits, and their changes are tracked. Then they return the modified document to you. If you have multiple people taking a look at it, you can even see who made which change.

Before you turn on track changes and start sharing your document with everybody, all sharing participants must check their Word 2011 for Mac preferences to make sure that their names are known to Word. Check your own Word preferences to make sure your own information is accurate. Here’s how:

1. Choose Word→Preferences from the menu bar.

2. In the Personal Settings section, choose User Information.

3. At the top of the pane, verify that the First, Last, and Initials show your actual name.

   Fill in this information and make corrections as needed. No other fields in User Information need to be adjusted in order to use track changes.

4. Click OK to save your changes and close the pane.

Sometimes IT departments clone Office installations, and everyone winds up with the same name or no name at all. Word can’t detect different users if two or more people have the same name in the User Information preferences.

How To Track Changes In Word 2013

So how do you turn on the Track Changes feature for a document? Click the Ribbon’s Review tab, find the Tracking group. Click the Track Changes button to toggle tracking on or off.

How To Use Track Changes For Mac

Here’s a second way to activate track changes in Word 2011 for Mac:

Track Changes In Excel For Mac

1. Choose Tools→Track Changes→Highlight Changes.

2. Make sure the last three check boxes are selected.

   You may prefer to check all four check boxes.

3. Click OK.