Track Changes

Hello friends! Today, I’m going to post about a useful tool which plays vital role in editing and revising documents. In recent versions of Word, you will find Track Changes on the Tools menu. Track Changes is a way in MS Word to keep track of each and every change you make to a document. Meanwhile, you can choose to accept or reject those changes. This is an amazing tool but initially it is little bit difficult to understand and use.

It is located in review tab of the Microsoft word. Using this tool you can see the changes made to any document. The changes like deletions, additions will appear in different fonts, color or can be underlined/italics/bold, depending upon the settings of your MS word. Also, the deletions will show up in call out balloons that appear in the right-hand margin. Revised words are visible on the saved ‘.dox’ file including all the changes which we have made. 

Using this tool, editing of documents can be done among team members/peers. For example: A supervisor creates a document and emails to all his/her workers and colleagues. Assume, one of the colleagues wants to give feedback. So, he/she can simply edit that document using track changes tool and send back to the supervisor. In this way, supervisor can see what changes are made by his/her colleague.

Through this tool, suggested revisions offered by different team members are easily identified and dated. Moreover, the original writer may accept or reject these changes. A video that shows how to use Track change tool in Microsoft word 2010 is as follows:

Reference URL: Jorgensen, T., (Dec. 23, 2010). How to Use Track Changes in Word 2010. Retrieved 02 27, 2012, Youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AUf-IxzXyVk and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHJmj2Gnw0I