Repeat this until all the revisions in the document have been accepted or rejected.Ĭlick the Review tab and click Next on the Comments group to advance from one comment to the next. Click Next to move to the next tracked change. To selectively accept or reject changes, click Accept and Move to Next or Reject and Move to Next. To reject all the changes, click the Reject down arrow > Reject All Changes in Document. To accept all changes, click Accept All Changes in Document. Click the Accept down arrow in the Changes Group

To remove all tracked changes from a document, be sure that all changes are showing, and then do the following:Ĭlick the Review tab on the ribbon. The tracked changes in a document remain even after you have turned off Track Changes. Track Changes: On or Track Changes: Off will display on the status bar (bottom bar in the document.) If this is not showing, right-click the status bar, and check Track Changes.

Click the down arrow on Track Changes > Track Changes to turn it on or off.If you turn on Track Changes, Word will save all changes and comments made. Remove Tracked Changes manually or selectively Remove all revisions or comments as outlined above. Click the File tab to return to your document and changes you made will be saved automatically. To add or change properties, hover your pointer over the property you want to update, for example Author, and enter the information. To selectively edit document data, click the File tab > Info. After you have completed these steps, save the document, and it will no longer contain the items you have removed.Įdit Document Properties, Personal Information and other document data.Click Remove All to remove the item of your choice, for example all comments, revisions, versions and annotations.Click Inspect to identify hidden content.The Word Document Inspection window shown below opens up.To open the Document Inspector, click File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document.Use the Document Inspector to remove hidden data To show all changes and comments, click the Review tab on the ribbon, and click All Markup on the Tracking group.

All comments that were inserted remain in the document until deleted. All the revisions that were made to a document while the Track Changes feature was turned on remain part of a Word document until they are accepted or rejected.

Avoid unintentionally distributing hidden information, such as the document author and names that are associated with comments or tracked changes, by removing hidden data.

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