

See those links in the previous sentence? Click on those for how to solve both these problems. Note, sometimes the text in this box comes out tiny or running right to left, especially if you are commenting on someone else’s document. A comment balloon will appear in the right-hand margin, where you can type your comment. When you want to do this, highlight the text you want to comment on and press the New Comment button in the ribbon. You might want to leave a note for yourself in the margin. This is helpful if you don’t understand what the other author is saying, or if something just needs to be commented on. Sometimes you might want to add a comment to the document. Again, you can choose which it does, and we’ll look at that next time. When you delete text from the document (marked in red), it will either hook it out of the document and stick it in a balloon to the side of the text (as here, and how I like to do it), or cross it out in the document itself (see the Word 2003 example below). See the article on customising Track Changes for why and how to change it). When you add text to the document (marked in blue) it will insert in a different colour, and underlined (note: the colour may not always be red. What happens when I delete and add text with Track Changes turned on? From now on, anything you change will NOT be marked up. If you want to turn Track Changes off, press the yellow button again and it will turn grey. It will go yellow, and this means Track Changes is turned on, and everything you do to the document from now on will be marked on the document.

Don’t worry about the little arrow in the corner for now, just press the button. You will see a big button marked Track Changes. The rest of the screen shots will be from Word 2007 but apply equally to Word 2010, as it works in the same way. This works the same as in Word 2007 – go to the Review tab and you’ll find the Track Changes options half way along the ribbon. How do I find Track Changes in Word 2010? Go to the Review tab, and you will find the Track Changes options half way along the ribbon: How do I find Track Changes in Word 2007? This is how you find Track Changes in Word 2003: Go to the Tools menu, drop it down, and select Track Changes. Like with most features, once you’ve found this in the menu system, it works the same in 20. How do I find Track Changes in Word 2003?

#Disable track changes in word 2003 full
This i s part of my series on how to use Word to the full to get what you need out of it.
