Gone are the days of manually inserting a strikethrough to indicate a deletion! The Dangers of Track Changes It’s also easy to accept or reject changes, without having to change individual fonts or colors. I do not then have to go through their resume word by word to see what alterations have occurred. The value of Track Changes to me as an editor is that my clients can see what I’ve changed, and I can see the changes they make. Track Changes also has a “Comments” feature that allows explanations and suggestions to be entered in the margins of your document. When the Track Changes feature is turned on, anyone who opens the document can see every change made to the original document, whether to fonts, page formats, margins, and text. Microsoft Word has a very useful feature called “Track Changes” that keeps track of changes that an editor makes to a document, and allows subsequent readers to see what changes were made. Ever get a document back from an editor that has tons of red or blue lines (maybe even some green ones), and have no idea how to get rid of them all, or view the document the way it’s supposed to look? This article is for you!ĭon’t submit a document that looks like this! Why I Love Track Changes in Word
