Tag: Secrets of the Review Ribbon
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Commenting in Comments – the Badness
Now that you’ve learned how to isolate reviewers so that you can skip through a specified user’s changes and comments, it may seem obvious why it’s bad to leave notes in someone else’s comments. In the example below, you’ll notice Laura (LB) has responded to my comment within the same bubble. If we were to…
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Changing View Options
As people make changes, such as deleting content, Word automatically strikes through the text and changes the color of the text. When a user changes the font options such as making something bold or italic, a balloon will appear at the right margin of the window. If markups such as these get to be too…
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Track Changes Options
Like so many things in Word, how you view track changes is highly customizable. Today’s post will be long due to detail. Does the color red upset you? Are you colorblind and having trouble telling reviewers apart based on color? Do you not care about formatting changes and are sick of seeing them notated? If…
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Isolating Specific Reviewers
From the Review ribbon in the Tracking group, expand the Show Markup dropdown menu, where you may enable or disable specific options if you only need to review certain types of changes or changes from specific reviewers. For example, if you want to observe any changes regarding insertion or deletion of content, then disable (uncheck)…
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Lock Tracking On
If you’ve ever dealt with multiple editors in a document, you’re likely already familiar with the Tracking group on the Review ribbon. The Comments, Tracking, and Changes groups are used to track any and all changes or comments made to a document. For the Tracking and Changes groups to be effective, the Track Changes toggle…
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Secrets of the Review Ribbon – Compare Versions of a Document
Today using what we understand about version history we’ll compare documents. Say you’re working on a shared drive and multiple are working in a document, but you want to see what changed from a prior iteration of the document. To compare changes from a prior version head to the Review ribbon then to the Compare…
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Secrets of the Review Ribbon – Version History
The Review ribbon is an ever-useful toolbar for tracking changes to the document when you have multiple writers/editors/reviewers and includes my much-beloved spell check. This month, we’ll deep dive into the underutilized tools this ribbon provides. Versioning in Word Before we get into things like Compare or Combine it’s good to know about versioning control. Did…
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