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How to Remove the Reviewing Pane in Word 2010

Turning on Runway Changes gives you and your coworkers a way to make changes that are easy to spot. The changes are similar suggestions that you tin review, then remove them or make them permanent.

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Plow Track Changes on and off

  • On theReview tab, go to Tracking and selectTrack Changes.

    Track Changes in the Tracking panel

    • When Track Changes is on, deletions are marked with a strikethrough, and additions are marked with an underline. Unlike authors' changes are indicated with different colors.

    • When Track Changes is off, Word stops marking changes, merely the colored underlines and strikethrough from your changes remain in the document until they're accepted or rejected.

Note:If the Track Changes feature is unavailable, you might need to plough off document protection. Become to Review > Restrict Editing, and then select Stop Protection. (You might need to provide the document countersign.)

Show or hide comments or tracked changes

Display all changes inline

The default in Word is to display deletions and comments in balloons in the margins of the certificate. Even so, you can alter the display to prove comments inline and all deletions with strikethroughs instead of inside balloons.

  1. On theReview tab, become toTracking.

  2. Select Show Markup.

    Show Markup in the Tracking panel

  3. Point to Balloons and select Show All Revisions Inline.

View inline comments as ScreenTips.

  • Remainder the pointer on a comment in the certificate. The comment appears in a ScreenTip.

    Inline comment with ScreenTip

Display changes by type of edit or past reviewer

  1. On theReview tab, get toTracking and selectShow Markup .

    Show Markup in the Tracking panel

  2. Practise 1 of the following:

    • Select the type of change that you lot want to display.

      For instance, select Comments,Insertions and Deletions, or Formatting. The cheque marking next to the particular indicates that the item is selected.

      Show Markup list options

      Important:Fifty-fifty if you hide a type of markup by immigration it on the Testify Markup menu, the markup automatically appears each time the document is opened past you or a reviewer.

    • Signal to Specific People, and and then articulate all check boxes except the ones next to the names of the reviewers whose changes and comments you want to show.

      Note:To select or articulate all check boxes for all reviewers in the list, select All Reviewers.

Brandish changes and comments for specific reviewers

An editor or reviewer usually wants to view a certificate as information technology volition appear after their changes are incorporated. This procedure gives an editor or reviewer the opportunity to run into how the certificate volition look with the changes.

  1. Go to Review > Tracking > Display for Review.

    Track Changes for All Markup

  2. Choose the choice y'all want:

    • To review the changes, indicated past a red line in the margin, choose Unproblematic Markup.

    • For a detailed view of the changes, choose All Markup.

    • For a preview of how the document will look if you make all the suggested changes permanent, choose No Markup.

    • To view the original document as if all the suggested changes were removed, cull Original.

Hide tracked changes and comments when press

Hiding changes does not remove changes from the certificate. To remove markup from your certificate, use the Accept and Reject commands in the Changes grouping.

  1. Go toFile > Impress > Settings > Print All Pages.

  2. Under Document Info, select Print Markup to articulate the check marking.

    Print Markup option

Review, accept, reject, and hide tracked changes

Review a summary of tracked changes

Using the Reviewing Pane you can quickly ensure that all tracked changes accept been removed from your document. The summary section at the meridian of the Reviewing Pane displays the exact number of tracked changes and comments that remain in your document.

The Reviewing Pane also allows y'all to read long comments that don't fit inside a comment bubble.

Notation:The Reviewing Pane, unlike the document or the annotate bubbles, is not the best tool for making changes to your certificate. Instead of deleting text or comments or making other changes in the Reviewing Pane, brand all editorial changes in the document. The changes will and so be visible in the Reviewing Pane.

  1. On theReview tab, go toTracking and selectReviewing Pane.

    Reviewing Pane in the Tracking panel

  2. Do 1 of the following:

    • To view the summary at the side of your screen, selectReviewing Pane Vertical.

    • To view the summary across the bottom of your screen, selectReviewing Pane Horizontal.

Past default, the Reviewing Pane shows at the top how many full revisions are in the document. To run across  the number and blazon of the changes, select the carat side by side to the number of revisions.

Reviewing pane with detailed revisions

Review each tracked change in sequence

  1. Click or tap at the beginning of the document.

  2. On theReviewtab, go toChanges.

  3. Select Acceptor Pass up. Equally you take or decline changes, Word will move to the side by side alter.

    Changes panel

  4. Repeat until there are no more tracked changes or comments in your document.

Tip:To review changes in the certificate without accepting or rejecting them, select Next or Previous.

Have or pass up a single change

Rather than move through changes in sequence, you lot can take or reject a unmarried change. When you take or pass up the alter, Discussion will not move to the next modify in the certificate.

  • Right-click the alter and select the choice to accept or refuse it.

    Right-click change ​​​​

Review changes by type of edit or by a specific reviewer

  1. Click or tap at the beginning of the certificate.

  2. On theReview tab, go toTracking.

    Show Markup in the Tracking panel

  3. In the Evidence Markup list, do one of the post-obit:

    • Clear all check boxes except for those next to the types of changes that you want to review.

    • Point toSpecific People, and and so articulate all check boxes except those next to the names of the reviewers whose changes you want to encounter or choose All Reviewers to select or clear the check boxes for all reviewers in the list.

  4. On theReview tab, go toChanges.

  5. Select Take or Pass up. As you accept or turn down changes, Word will move to the next change.

    Changes panel

  6. Repeat until you've reviewed all of the changes in your document.

Accept all changes at the aforementioned time

  1. Go toReview > Changes.

  2. In the Take list, selectAccept All Changes or Accept All Changes and Stop Tracking.

    Accept All Changes

Accept or reject all changes at the same time

  1. On theReviewtab, go to Changes.

  2. Exercise one of the following:

    • In theTakedrop-downward list, selectTake All Changes.

    • In the Pass up driblet-down list, select Refuse All Changes.

      Reject All Changes

Delete comments

  1. Select a comment.

  2. On theReviewtab, get toComments, and select Delete.

    Delete a comment button

  3. Click Next or Previous to movement to another comment.

Delete all comments

  1. Select a comment.

  2. On theReviewtab, become to Comments.

  3. In the Delete driblet-downward list, select Delete All Comments in Document.

    Delete All Comments

Do with Runway Changes and other collaboration features in Word past downloading this Collaborate in Word learning guide.

When tracked changes are turned on, Give-and-take marks whatsoever changes fabricated past any authors of the document. This is useful when yous're collaborating with other authors because yous can see which authors made a particular change.

Turn Track Changes on

  • On the Review tab, turn onRails Changes.

    Turn on Track Changes is highlighted ​​​

Give-and-take shows changes in the document by displaying a line in the margin. If you switch to All Markup view, you lot'll see changes inline and in balloons.

Markup is highlighted near the margin

Someday someone adds a annotate, it'll bear witness up in a balloon.

A comment in the margin is highlighted

Show changes inline

To run across changes inline instead of in balloons, do the following:

  1. On theReview Tab, selectMarkup Options

  2. Point to Balloons and selectShow All Revisions Inline.

    Show all Revisions inline is highlighted

Go along Runway Changes on

To prevent others from turning off Track Changes, lock Track Changes on with a password.

Important:Be sure to remember the countersign and so you tin turn Runway Changes off when yous're ready to accept or reject the changes.

Lock Track Changes with a password

  1. On theTools menu, selectProtect Certificate.

  2. Under Protection, selectProtect document for, and then select Tracked changes

    Protection section is highlighted

  3. In thePassword box, enter a countersign and select OK.

  4. Re-enter your password and select OK.

While tracked changes are locked, y'all can't turn off alter tracking, and you can't accept or decline changes.

Unlock Track Changes

  1. On theTools menu, select Protect Document.

  2. Under Protection, uncheck Protect certificate for.

  3. Enter your countersign and select OK.

Track Changes will nevertheless be on, just yous'll be able to have and turn down changes.

Plow off Rail Changes

  • On the Review tab, plow off Rail Changes.

Word stops mark upwardly new changes—simply all of the changes that were already tracked will still exist in the certificate. For more info, encounter remove the tracked changes and comments.

Turn tracked changes on or off

When tracked changes are turned on, Discussion marks any changes made by whatsoever authors of the document. This is useful when you're collaborating with other authors because you lot tin see which authors made a particular change.

  1. Open the document that you desire to edit.

  2. On the Review tab, under Tracking, select the Runway Changes switch to turn on rails changes.

    Review tab, Tracking group

    Tips:

    • Each reviewer's changes are displayed in a different color. If there are more than eight reviewers, Word will reuses colors.

    • To assign a specific color to your ain tracked changes, on the Give-and-take menu, select Preferences, and then under Output and Sharing, select Track Changes Word Tracked Changes Preferences button. In the Color boxes, select the color that you want.

    • The reviewer's name, the appointment and time that the change was made, and the kind of change that was made (for example, Deleted) likewise appear in the markup balloons for each modify. If you lot're not displaying markup balloons, this information appears when yous hover over a change.

    • The Highlight Changes options on the Tools > Track Changes menu (Highlight changes on screen, Highlight changes in printed document) and the options on the Review tab pop-upwardly carte (Last Showing Markup, Terminal, Original Showing Markup, Original) are non saved settings. If you don't desire tracked changes to brandish when you lot re-open the certificate, you need to accept or reject the changes. If you desire a record of the revisions, save a copy of the document before accepting or rejecting changes.

Show tracked changes or comments by type or past reviewer

You can evidence or hide a document's comments, formatting, insertions, and deletions or view comments for only the reviewers that y'all select.

  • On the Review tab, go toTracking,

  • In the Show Markup drop-down list, select the pick that you want.

    Review tab, Tracking group

    Tip:To display a shaded background behind the area where tracked changes or comments appear in the right margin, on the Bear witness Markup popular-up menu, select Markup Area Highlight. This shaded expanse also prints with your certificate to help split the document text from the tracked changes or comments.

Turn off tracked changes in balloons

By default, insertions, deletions, comments, the reviewer'southward name, and a fourth dimension stamp are displayed in balloons that appear in the margins of your document. You can modify your settings to display tracked changes in the torso of the document.

  1. Become toReview > Tracking, on the Bear witness Markup pop-up menu, select Preferences.

    Review tab, Tracking group

  2. Do one of the post-obit:

To

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Display tracked changes in the trunk of the document instead of in balloons

Clear the Utilise balloons to display changes check box.

Hide the reviewer's name and the time and date postage in balloons

Clear the Include reviewer, time postage, and action buttons check box.

Note:With balloons turned off, commented text is enclosed in brackets, highlighted by a color, and identified by the reviewer'southward initials. Comments announced in a small-scale pop-upwardly window when you lot residuum the arrow over commented text, except when your document is in publishing layout view.

Change the formatting of tracked changes

Y'all can customize how revision marker announced and work in Word.

  1. On the Review tab, go toTracking.

  2. In the Show Markup driblet-down listing, select Preferences.

    Review tab, Tracking group

  3. Select the options you want. The post-obit tabular array lists some frequently used formatting options.

To

Do this

Change the color and other formatting that Word uses to identify changes

Under Markup, select the formatting options that you desire on the pop-up menus.

Betoken deletions without displaying the text that was deleted

Under Markup, on the Deletions pop-upward bill of fare, select # or ^.

Deleted text will be replaced with the character # or ^.

Change the appearance of changed lines

Under Markup, on the Changed lines and Colors popular-up menus, select the options that you want.

Track text that is moved

Under Moves, select Track moves, and so on the Moved from, Moved to, and Color popular-up menus, select the options that you want.

Change the color that Word uses to mark changes that are made to tabular array cells

Nether Table cell highlighting, on the Inserted cells, Deleted cells, Merged cells, and Split up cells pop-upward menus, select the options that you desire.

Review tracked changes and comments

You can review and accept or turn down each tracked change in sequence, take or turn down all changes at one time, delete all comments at in one case, or review the items that are created past a specific reviewer.

  1. If revision marks don't announced in the document, on the Tools carte du jour, betoken to Rails Changes, select Highlight Changes, and then select the Highlight changes on screen check box.

  2. Do 1 of the post-obit:

To

On the Review tab, practise this

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Review the adjacent alter

Under Changes, select Next

Select Have or Refuse.

Review the previous alter

Under Changes, select Previous

Select Accept or Turn down.

Accept all changes at once

Nether Changes, select the pointer next to Take

Select Have All Changes in Certificate.

Reject all changes at ane fourth dimension

Under Changes, select the arrow next to Decline

Select Refuse All Changes in Certificate.

Delete all comments at once

Under Comments, select the pointer adjacent to Delete

Select Delete All Comments in Document.

Review items created by a specific reviewer

Nether Tracking, select Show Markup

Point to Reviewers, and then articulate all bank check marks except the one next to the name of the reviewer whose changes you lot want to review.

To select or articulate the check boxes for all reviewers in the listing, select All Reviewers.

Note:When y'all rest the pointer on a tracked change, a ScreenTip appears that displays the author's proper name, the appointment and fourth dimension of the alter, and the kind of alter that was made.

Print tracked changes

Tracked changes can be useful to include in a printed version of a document.

  1. Open up the document that contains the tracked changes that you want to print.

  2. On theFile menu, selectImpress.

  3. On the Copies & Pages pop-up menu, select Microsoft Word.

    Tip:If you don't run into the Copies & Pages pop-up carte, select the blue downwards facing arrow to the right of the Printer pop-up card.

  4. On the Print What popular-up carte du jour, select Document showing markup.

Plough on Rail Changes

Yous can set up Discussion for the Spider web to track changes for all users who are collaborating on the document or to runway just your changes.

  1. On theReview tab, go toTracking.

  2. In the Track Changes drop-downwards list, do one of the post-obit:

    • To rail only the changes you make to the document, selectJust Mine.

      Turn on Track Changes for Just Mine.

    • To track changes to the certificate made by all users, select For Anybody.

      Turn on Track Changes For Everyone.

Turn off Track Changes

  1. On theReview tab, go toTracking.

  2. In theRunway Changes drib-down listing, selectOff.


    Turn off Track Changes.

Review, have, or reject changes

You can review each tracked change in sequence and decide whether to take or reject the change.

  1. Click or tap at the beginning of the document.

  2. On theReview tab, go toTracking.

  3. Select Accept or Decline. As y'all accept or reject changes, Word will movement to the next change.

    Tracking pane with Accept, Reject, Previous, and Next commands.

    Tip:To review changes in the document without accepting or rejecting them, select Adjacent or Previous.

  4. Repeat until you've reviewed all of the changes in your document.

Accept or reject a single change

Rather than movement through changes in sequence, you can accept or reject a single change. When you take or pass up the alter, Word volition not motility to the next change in the document.

  • Right-click the change and select the choice to accept or reject it.

    Right-click to accept or reject a change.

Turn Track Changes on or off (Give-and-take for iPad)

  1. Tap the Review tab.

  2. Tap the control adjacent toTrack Changes to turn Track Changes on or off.

    Turn Track Changes on or off

Testify or hibernate markup (Give-and-take for iPad)

  1. On the Review tab, tap the Display for Review icon.

    Display for Review

  2. In the Brandish for Review listing, tap the choice yous want:

    • All Markup (inline) shows the final document with tracked changes visible inline

    • No markup shows the final certificate without tracked changed

    • Original shows the original document with no tracked changes

Show tracked changes past type (Discussion for iPad)

  1. On the Review tab, tap the Display for Review icon.

  2. In the Display for Review list, tap Show Markup.

    Show Markup menu

  3. In the Show Markup list, tap the option you lot want:

    • Ink shows or hides any marks made past digital inking in the document.

    • Insertions & Deletions shows or hides inserted or deleted text.

    • Formatting shows or hides formatting changes.

    • Show Revisions in Balloons shows changes in balloons in the right margin.

    • Show Only Formatting in Balloons shows only formatting changes in balloons and keeps the other changes as inline tracking.

Testify tracked changes past reviewer (Word for iPad)

If there are multiple reviewers for the document, Word will evidence all changes past default. Still, you can cull to show merely changes fabricated by specific viewers.

  1. On the Review tab, tap the Display for Review icon.

  2. In the Display for Review list, tap Show Markup.

  3. In the Show Markup list, tap Reviewers.

  4. In the Other Authors list, tap the names of the reviewers whose changes you want to see or tap All Reviewers.

Accept changes (Give-and-take for iPad)

  1. Tap twice on a change in the document to select it.

  2. On the Review tab, tap the Accept icon.

    Accept Changes menu

  3. Do one of the following:

    • TapHave & Move to Side by side to accept the change and move to the next change in the document.

    • TapTake Deletion, Have Insertion, or Accept Change to accept the selected change, identified contextually by blazon, and not move to the next modify in the document.

    • TapAccept All Shown to take all changes that are visible, but not changes that are hidden. For example, if yous're viewing just changes fabricated by a specific reviewer, tapping Accept All Shown accepts only the changes fabricated by that reviewer.

    • TapAccept All to have all changes in the document.

    • TapAccept All & Stop Tracking to have all changes in the document and plow off Rail Changes.

  4. To move to another change without accepting or rejecting it, tap the Previous or Adjacent icon.

Reject changes (Word for iPad)

  1. Tap twice on a change in the document to select information technology.

  2. On the Review tab, tap the Rejecticon.

    Reject Changes menu

  3. Do one of the post-obit:

    • TapReject & Movement to Adjacent to reject the change and move to the side by side change in the certificate.

    • TapReject Deletion, Reject Insertion, or Reject Change to reject the selected change, identified contextually by type, and not move to the next change in the document.

    • TapReject All Shown to reject all changes that are visible, simply non changes that are subconscious. For example, if you're viewing but changes fabricated past a specific reviewer, tapping Reject All Shown rejects only the changes fabricated by that reviewer.

    • TapRefuse All to pass up all changes in the document.

    • TapRejects All & Stop Tracking to turn down all changes in the certificate and turn off Track Changes.

  4. To motion to some other modify without accepting or rejecting it, tap the Previous or Side by side icon.

Delete comments (Word for iPad)

  1. Tap twice on a comment in the document to select it.

  2. Tap the Review tab.

    Review tab comments menu

  3. Tap the Delete icon to delete the comment or press and hold the Delete icon until the Delete list appears, then practise 1 of the post-obit:

    • Tap Delete to delete only the selected comment.

    • Tap Delete All to delete all comments in the document.

  4. To motility to some other comment without deleting it, tap the Previous or Side by side icon.

Turn Track Changes on or off (Word for iPhone)

  1. Tap the pen icon at the top to open the ribbon.

  2. Tap the Review tab.

    Review tab

  3. Tap the command adjacent to Track Changes to turn Track Changes on or off.

    Turn Track Changes on or off

Evidence or hide markup (Discussion for iPhone)

  1. On the Review tab, tap Display for Review.

    Display for Review

  2. Tap the option yous want:

    • All Markup (inline) shows the concluding document with tracked changes visible inline

    • No markup shows the final certificate without tracked changed

    • Original shows the original document with no tracked changes

Show tracked changes by type (Word for iPhone)

  1. On the Review tab, tap Display for Review.

  2. Tap Show Markup.

    Show Markup

  3. In the Show Markup list, tap the choice you want:

    • Ink shows or hides any marks made by digital inking in the document.

    • Insertions & Deletions shows or hides inserted or deleted text.

    • Formatting shows or hides formatting changes.

Bear witness tracked changes by reviewer (Word for iPhone)

If there are multiple reviewers for the document, Word will testify all changes by default. However, you can choose to show simply changes made by specific viewers.

  1. On the Review tab, tap Display for Review.

  2. Tap Show Markup.

  3. Tap Reviewers.

  4. In the Other Authors list, tap the names of the reviewers whose changes you want to see or tap All Reviewers.

Take changes (Discussion for iPhone)

  1. Tap twice on a change in the document to select it.

  2. On the Review tab, tap Accept.

    Accept tracked changes

  3. Do one of the following:

    • TapTake & Motion to Side by side to accept the change and movement to the next change in the certificate.

    • TapAccept Deletion, Accept Insertion, or Accept Alter to accept the selected change, identified contextually past type, and not move to the adjacent modify in the document.

    • TapAccept All Shown to accept all changes that are visible, but not changes that are hidden. For case, if y'all're viewing only changes fabricated by a specific reviewer, tapping Take All Shown accepts simply the changes made past that reviewer.

    • TapAccept All to accept all changes in the document.

    • TapAccept All & Stop Tracking to accept all changes in the document and turn off Rail Changes.

Reject changes (Word for iPhone)

  1. Tap twice on a change in the document to select information technology.

  2. On the Review tab, tapRefuse.

    Reject tracked changes

  3. Do one of the following:

    • TapReject & Motion to Next to decline the change and motion to the adjacent change in the document.

    • TapDecline Deletion, Reject Insertion, or Reject Change to reject the selected change, identified contextually by type, and non motility to the next alter in the document.

    • TapReject All Shown to reject all changes that are visible, but not changes that are hidden. For instance, if you're viewing simply changes made by a specific reviewer, tapping Reject All Shown rejects only the changes fabricated by that reviewer.

    • TapReject All to reject all changes in the certificate.

    • TapTurn down All & Stop Tracking to refuse all changes in the certificate and turn off Track Changes.

Delete comments (Word for iPhone)

  1. Tap twice on a comment in the certificate to select it.

  2. One the Review tab, tap Delete,and and then do i of the following:

    • Tap Delete to delete only the selected comment.

    • Tap Delete All to delete all comments in the document.

      Delete comments

  3. To motility to some other annotate without deleting it, tap the Previous or Side by side icon.

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Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/track-changes-in-word-197ba630-0f5f-4a8e-9a77-3712475e806a