How to Track Changes in Word & Google Docs
Tracking changes in Microsoft Word and Google Docs makes it possible to make tentative edits to a document that you can then accept or reject later.
This editing feature in Word and Google Docs makes collaboration between writers and editors easier, and can greatly improve your document workflow.
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How to Track Changes in Word
MS Word Edit Mode allows you to make changes to your document as suggestions that can then be accepted or rejected by you or the document owner before being made part of the final document. For example, you may want to share a business proposal or contract around to colleagues for feedback and approval before sharing it with a client or customer or sending it for digital signature.
Here’s how to use Track Changes in Word.
How to Turn On Track Changes in Word
Before you begin editing, you have to turn on Track Changes in Word. Where is Track Changes in Word? In the Navigation Ribbon, click “Review,” then click “Track Changes.”
Pro Tip. You can activate Track Changes using a keyboard shortcut. To begin tracking changes, press Ctrl + Shift + E.
As you type, changes will appear in red. Deleted text will show a strikethrough, and comments formatting changes will appear in bubbles to the right. Optionally, you can choose from several options to customize the Track Changes view.
- Display for Review – This option allows you to choose how the markup will show for you or an editor during the review. Simple Markup shows changes in the margin indicated by a red line. All Markup shows changes in detail. No Markup shows the document as it would appear if you accepted all changes.
- Show Markup – This option allows you to customize the markup view in the document window. Choose to show or hide comments, deletions, and formatting changes, as well as edits from specific people.
- Reviewing Pane – This option opens the Reviewing Pane, where you can see and act on all tracked changes within the document. The drop-down menu allows you to choose from a vertical or horizontal reviewing pane.
All changes made in this mode are temporary until accepted by the document owner.
How to Turn Off Track Changes in Word
When you’re done making suggestions to the document, open the Review menu in the Navigation Ribbon, then click “Track Changes” again. Any edits made with Track Changes turned off will directly change the final document.
Pro Tip. The same keyboard shortcut that turns on Track Changes also turns off Track Changes in Word. To turn off Track Changes with a keyboard shortcut, press Ctrl + Shift + E.
With Track Changes turned off, you can now begin accepting or rejecting the suggested changes in the document.
Accepting or Rejecting Changes
There are two ways to accept or deny changes in Word. You can accept them individually, directly within the document, or individually or in bulk in the Review menu.
- Accept or Reject Inline – Within the document, right-click on any of the tracked changes. In the drop-down menu, select “Accept” or “Reject.”
- Review Menu – In the Review Menu, to the right of the Track Changes button are the “Accept” and “Reject” buttons. Clicking on either of these will activate Reviewing mode. You can navigate to the previous or next suggestion without accepting or rejecting the current one by clicking “previous” or “next.”
Clicking “Accept” or “Reject” will accept or deny the current tracked change and move on to the next one. Are you wondering how to accept all track changes in Word? Just click the drop-down menu under Accept and click “Accept All Changes.” Do the same under Reject to reject all.
How to Remove Tracked Changes in Word
You can only remove tracked changes from the document by accepting or denying them. However, you can hide markup for review by selecting “No Markup” under the “Show Markup” menu. You can also hide markup while printing under Print Settings.
How to Track Changes in Google Docs
Tracking changes in Google Docs is done through the “Suggesting” and “Editing” modes. These two modes allow you to make changes as suggestions and to accept or reject those suggested changes. Here’s how to use these editing features in Google Docs.
Where Is Track Changes in Google Docs?
Users familiar with Microsoft Word may find themselves a little lost trying to locate the Track Changes feature in Google Docs. That’s because Google Docs allows you to track changes using the Suggesting and Editing settings.
In the upper-right corner of the document editor window, expand the drop-down menu under the Editing button. You’ll see three options – Editing, Suggesting, and Viewing.
- Editing – This is the default setting. All changes made in this mode directly affect the live document.
- Suggesting – In this mode, all document changes are added to the document as suggestions. The document owner can either accept or reject these changes. Only accepted changes become part of the final document.
- Viewing – This mode prohibits all editing. Viewers can make no changes to a document in Viewing mode.
Select Suggesting mode to begin tracking changes. As you make changes to the document, these changes will be added to the document in green. All changes are temporary until accepted by the document owner. Rejected changes do not affect the document.
Accepting and Rejecting Changes in Google Docs
When you’re finished making suggested changes to your document, use the drop-down menu to switch from Suggesting mode to Editing mode. You can approve or deny all the changes one by one or reject or accept all track changes in Google Docs at once in editing mode.
- Accept or Reject – To accept or reject edits individually, click on the comment bubble associated with a correction. Click the checkmark to accept the change or the X to deny it.
- Accept or Reject All – To accept or reject all suggested changes at once, in the document menu, click “Tools” and select “Review Suggested Edits.” Click “Accept” or “Reject” individually, or choose “Accept All” or “Reject All” from the drop-down menus.
Pro Tip. You can access the Review Suggested Edits menu via a keyboard shortcut. Press Ctrl + Alt + O or Ctrl + Alt + U to go directly to the Suggested Edits.
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Editing Tools: How to Use Track Changes in Microsoft Word
Track Changes is a key tool for proofreading in Microsoft Word. And if you want to work as a proofreader, you’ll need to know how it works. In this post, then, we’re going to run you through the basics of how to use Track Changes when editing a document in Microsoft Word.
How to Turn on Track Changes in Microsoft Word
Track Changes is an editing tool you can use to record revisions to a document. As a proofreader, this offers a simple way to mark up edits for your client when editing in Microsoft Word. To do this, though, you’ll need to turn on Track Changes by
- Going to the Review tab on the main ribbon.
- Clicking the Track Changes
That’s it! Once you’ve done that, Word will record all changes made to the document. And to stop tracking changes, all you need to do is click the Track Changes button again.

You can also toggle the Track Changes tool with the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + E in Microsoft Word for Windows (or Cmd + Shift + E in Microsoft Word for Mac).
Markup Options for Tracked Changes
You can control how Microsoft Word displays tracked changes via the markup options. You’ll find these on the Review tab in a dropdown menu just next to the Track Changes button.
The markup options available here in recent versions of Microsoft Word are:
- Simple Markup – Shows you the edited text, with changes marked via red marks in the left margin. Clicking these red marks will switch you to All Markup.
- All Markup – Shows edits in red, with deleted text also formatted with the strikethrough effect (e.g., deleted text ). Formatting changes are recorded via bubbles in the right margin.
- No Markup – Displays the edited version of the document with no changes marked.
- Original – Shows the document prior to any edits being made.
We suggest using Simple Markup as a default. This lets you proofread without being distracted by red marks in the text, but you can quickly switch to All Markup to review your changes.
You can also customize how edits are displayed (e.g., the color of highlighted edits, the types of changes shown) via the Show Markup menu, which is just below the main markup options.

Reviewing Tracked Edits
As a proofreader, you may need to review existing edits in Microsoft Word (e.g., if your client wants you to check changes they made while redrafting). And even if you don’t need to use the review options yourself, you may need to explain how they work for a client.
Good news, though! Reviewing edits is quite simple in Word. All you need to do is go to the Changes section of the Review tab. Your options here are:
- Previous and Next – Cycles through tracked changes.
- Accept and Reject – Accepts or rejects a selected edit.
When you accept an edit, it no longer shows up as a tracked change in the document. And when you reject an edit, the text reverts to how it was in the original version.
There is also an option to accept or reject all changes in a document at once, accessed by clicking the down arrow on the relevant button and selecting the option from the menu.

However, you should only use Accept All Changes if you’ve already checked the tracked edits.
Leaving Comments
The other key tool in Microsoft Word that you may need to use as a proofread or editor is the commenting tool. You can use this to explain changes you’ve made, suggest further edits, or pose questions for your client.
To leave a comment in Microsoft Word, you have three options:
- Go to the Review tab on the ribbon and click New Comment.
- Right click and select New Comment from the contextual menu.
- Use the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + M.

After this, type your comment in the bubble in the right margin. If you need to edit a comment, simply select it and make any changes required.
You can also reply to existing comments in a document by clicking Reply in the comment itself.

To delete a comment, meanwhile, you can either right click and select Delete from the contextual menu or select the comment and go to Review > Comments > Delete on the main toolbar. You will also find an option to delete all comments in a document here, so make sure not to click this by accident!

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Agree Richard, a complete pain in the arse! Who’re the idiots who lost the balloons? Sheesh!!
Earlier versions allowed Deletions to be shown in the margins – but it seems that is not an option in 2016. it is so cumbersome having deletions still appearing (albeit with strike through) in a document. Has anyone found a solution?
It appears that Word 2016 is woefully inadequate to the professional editor. Alas, it appears that we are being pushed to search for other solutions in other so-called writing programs. I’ve been a Word user for over 20 years and am now looking for other options. In my world, streamlining is not synonymous wth stripping down. Apparently in Redmond, it is.
The last two comments are entirely dispiriting. I’m still in 2013 and have nothing better to look forward to in 2016. And yet, with all things MS, I’m not going to have a choice at some future date. Ms. Paulette, if you find that “something else,” will you let us know? Thank you.
I, too, think that taking away the option to display edits in balloons makes 2016 worse. Now, the deleted passages and replacements are side by side and in the same color. Who can read that? Please, Microsoft, if you care anything at all about user experience, undo the damage in your next revision.
I asked the first question in this thread just about a year ago: How do I strip down Track Changes to just what I, the user, need?: Red for me for in-line changes and comments, and blue for author returns. No balloons. Deletions hidden. That’s all I want. Not really tracking, I suppose, just editing between the author and me.
It worked perfectly in 2003 (for me, at least). There ought to be options for all the settings, not having to work around ALL the settings ALL the time. Some people want balloons, some don’t. Some want multiple author colors, some don’t. Some want Google-visible instant changes, some don’t. Some want date-specific changes, some don’t.
Fix it so the user can pick and choose.
I’m noticing some other problems. First, the menu options under “review” don’t look at all the same in my MSW as they do on the instructions above. I am a subscriber and use a Mac. Second, not only does the option for balloons appear gray, but so does the option for multiple authors. I would like to be able to use it.
If an option appears on the menu at all, it must be available, but if it’s gray, I can’t invoke it. So where in all the various places to look to specify preferences can I tell MSW that I want to use those options?
I came here because my husband and I were having trouble figuring out how to handle track changes in Word 2016, which he has, after I have done the preliminary editing of a translation in my Word 2010. Wow! No easy to see track changes button at the top and no simple way to switch back and forth between showing the TCs and simply viewing the new version of the document without indicating what has been changed? I prefer the old way of handling comments, as well.
This new system in 2016 is way, way, way beyond what we need, and I feel terribly discouraged about it, looking to the future of our editing jobs. Why does Microsoft have to keep spoiling perfectly useful things and making it so that you practically have to take a course in order to do what used to be easy and relatively intuitive?
One thing I know: we will NOT be buying Office 2016 for my husband’s new Windows 10 PC, but will get 2013. We hate its pale lines, so hard to use for anyone with eye problems, but at least we could track changes in the usual way, even if he has Word 2013 and I have 2010. Maybe we’ll buy 2010 for his PC too, if it will work with Windows 10. (I am still hanging on to my old Windows 7 and Word 2010 as long as possible.)
To summarize: Powerful Schmowerful!
Unfortunately, yes. I have figured out how to jury-rig my TCs so it works between me and just one other person. See the very first comment in this thread. It shouldn’t be this difficult.
My new version of Word (2016) does not give me the option of NOT starting over at the top after a change. the old version used to ask something like: do you want to start again at the top of the document?
Can I turn this feature on somehow?
I turned on track changes and made sure they worked. saved and closed the document. emailed it to the people who need to make the changes. the track changes turned itself off and I can’t see any changes. how can I stop it from turning itself off?
DF Both my husband and I now have had to buy new PCs, and along with that, both ended up with Word 2016. Although it has been frustrating that his Word 2016 has somehow acquired/lost some functions, while mine remains unchanged, we have found a minimal way to carry on with the editing work we do. (The following comments may be too elementary for some people here; sorry–but just in case…)
In the ribbon, I click “Track changes, and then click “Track changes again in the tiny menu that pops up. Next, in the Track changes section of the ribbon, which also contains things like “All markup” (which is what I leave selected) and “Show markup”, I click on the teensy arrow (Is it an arrow? Too small to tell.) that is in the lower right-hand corner, opposite “Tracking.” This brings up a larger “Track changes options” box. In that box, clicking on “Advanced options” brings you to a box where you can choose colors for the changes you make. I normally only deal with the ones on the top right for inserting and for striking out deletions, leaving them in red, unless some company I edit for has allowed other people to use that color already(grr). You can click on the little down arrows and select a different color if desired.
Debra: Would the following help, or are you much more advanced than me and complaining about something I have fortunately not yet come up against? It may be that track changes has not really turned itself off and there is a toggle that will bring it back:
The one feature I like in Word 2016 is the vertical lines that appear to the
left of text that has been edited in some way. If they are black, you can see
all the changes you have made–deleted items turned red and struck out in red.
But if you click on one of those vertical lines, all such lines turn red and
you will see the text in the form it will take without any changes being
shown. I often switch back and forth between black lines and red because with
too many corrections shown, things can get confusing.
I have never had a course in using any version of Word, so have had to discover things “by guess and by gorry,” as my grandmother used to say, so there may be better ways. I welcome any and all information that makes life with Word easier.
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Как отслеживать изменения в Word
MSO.29 Отслеживание изменений в Microsoft Word (Июнь 2023)
Когда вам нужно отправить документ, который вы написали в Microsoft Word для просмотра другими, легко настроить функцию изменения треков Word, чтобы отметить, где вы внесли изменения. Затем вы можете просмотреть эти изменения и решить, хотите ли вы принять или отклонить их. Более того, вы также можете заблокировать доступ к отслеживанию изменений, чтобы другие не могли удалять или изменять чьи-либо изменения или комментарии.
Включить изменения пути

Вот как включить отслеживание изменений в Word 2007 и более поздних версиях:
- НажмитеОбзор пункт меню.
- НажмитеОтслеживать изменения в ленте.
- НажмитеОтслеживать изменения в раскрывающемся меню.
Если у вас есть Word 2003, вот как включить отслеживание изменений:
- НажмитеПосмотреть пункт меню.
- НажмитеПанели инструментов.
- НажмитеОбзор в раскрывающемся меню, чтобы открыть панель обзора.
- Если значок «Изменения дорожки» не выделен, щелкните значок (второй справа на панели инструментов «Обзор»). Значок подсвечивается оранжевым фоном, чтобы вы знали, что функция включена.
Теперь, когда вы начинаете отслеживать, вы увидите строки изменения в левом поле всех ваших страниц, когда вы вносите изменения.
Принять и отклонить изменения

В Word 2007 и более поздних версиях вы видите представление Simple Markup по умолчанию при отслеживании изменений. Это означает, что вы увидите строки изменения в левом поле рядом с текстом, который был изменен, но вы не увидите никаких изменений в тексте.
Когда вы решите принять или отклонить изменения в документе, который вы или кто-то еще сделали, вот как отметить изменение, принятое или отклоненное в Word 2007 и более поздних версиях:
- Нажмите на предложение или блок текста, который содержит изменение.
- Нажмите Обзор если необходимо.
- Нажмите принимать или же отклонять в панели инструментов.
Если вы нажмете «Принять», строка изменений исчезнет, и текст останется. Если вы нажмете «Отклонить», строка изменений исчезнет, и текст будет удален. В любом случае Track Changes переходит к следующему изменению документа, и вы можете решить, хотите ли вы принять или отклонить следующее изменение.
Если вы используете Word 2003, вот что делать:
- Выберите отредактированный текст.
- Откройте панель инструментов «Обзор», как вы это делали ранее в этой статье.
- На панели инструментов нажмите Принять или отклонить изменения.
- В окне «Принять или отклонить изменения» нажмите принимать принять изменение или нажать отклонять отвергнуть его.
- Нажмите стрелка вправо Найти чтобы перейти к следующему изменению.
- Повторите шаги 1-5 по мере необходимости. Когда вы закончите, закройте окно, щелкнув близко.
Включение и выключение блокировки слежения

Вы можете запретить кому-либо отключать отслеживание изменений, включив отслеживание блокировки и затем добавляя пароль, если хотите. Пароль является необязательным, но вы можете добавить его, если другие люди, которые просматривают документ, который ошибочно (или не удаляет) удаляет или редактирует изменения других комментаторов.
Вот как заблокировать отслеживание в Word 2007 и более поздних версиях:
- Нажмите Обзор если это необходимо.
- Нажмите Отслеживать изменения в ленте.
- Нажмите Блокировка слежения.
- В окне «Отслеживание блокировки» введите пароль в Введите пароль коробка.
- Повторно введите пароль в Подтвердить подтверждение коробка.
- Нажмите Хорошо.
Когда включено отслеживание блокировки, никто не может отключить отслеживание изменений и не может принимать или отклонять изменения, но они могут делать любые комментарии или изменения самостоятельно. Вот что нужно сделать, если вы готовы отключить отслеживание изменений в Word 2007 и более поздних версиях:
- Следуйте первым трем шагам в приведенных выше инструкциях.
- В окне Отслеживание разблокировки введите пароль в пароль коробка.
- Нажмите Хорошо.
Если у вас есть Word 2003, вот как заблокировать изменения, чтобы никто больше не мог удалять или редактировать изменения кого-либо:
- Нажмите инструменты пункт меню.
- Нажмите Защитить документ.
- На панели «Ограничение форматирования и редактирования» в правой части экрана нажмите Разрешить только этот тип редактирования в документе установите флажок.
- Нажмите Нет изменений (только для чтения).
- Нажмите Отслеживаемые изменения в раскрывающемся меню.
Если вы хотите отключить изменения блокировки, повторите первые три шага выше, чтобы удалить все ограничения на редактирование.
После того, как вы разблокируете Track Changes, обратите внимание, что Track Changes все еще включен, поэтому вы можете продолжать вносить изменения в документ. Вы также сможете принимать или отклонять изменения от других пользователей, которые редактировали и / или писали комментарии в документе.
Отключить отслеживание изменений

В Word 2007 и более поздних версиях вы можете отключить отслеживание изменений одним из двух способов. Во-первых, выполните те же действия, что и при включении Track Changes. И вот второй вариант:
- Нажмите Обзор если необходимо.
- Нажмите принимать в ленте.
- Нажмите Принять все изменения и остановить отслеживание.
Второй вариант заставит все разметки в вашем документе исчезнуть. Когда вы вносите изменения и / или добавляете больше текста, вы не увидите никакой разметки в вашем документе.
Если у вас есть Word 2003, следуйте тем же инструкциям, которые вы использовали при включении изменений дорожки. Единственное отличие, которое вы увидите, это то, что значок больше не выделяется, что означает, что функция отключена.
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