I don’t know what’s changed, but in the past, when I wanted to see revisions and changes to a document in Microsoft Word on my Mac it showed me what was inserted and deleted. Now, however, it has zillions of little balloons on the side of the document. What the heck? How do I change Microsoft Word so revision tracking shows up the way I prefer?
As someone who works with a lot of different documents, I’m with you in preferring the “old style” revision display in Microsoft Word for Mac. A red line through a word to show it was deleted, the word in blue to show it was added, it was all easy and made sense.
This is a Microsoft product, however, so it should be no surprise that there’s a way to tweak and customize it to what you prefer rather than just being stuck with the newest, fancy way to show revisions and tweaks to your document.
To start out, here’s what the newer, modern revision tracking looks like in Microsoft Word for Mac:
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of this either.
To change it, go to “Preferences…”, which you can find under the “Word” menu:
Open it up and you get all sorts of pretty little icons, including the one we seek:
Click on “Track Changes” and about 2/3 of the way down you’ll see a section labeled “Balloons”:
Simply uncheck these two checkboxes, click “OK” to save the changes, and your edits will be in the classic style:
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There’s a lot of stuff you can tweak and customize with this version of Microsoft Word, so while you’re looking at your Preferences, make sure it’s all configured as you desire too.
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Removing all of the tracked changes in your document is a two-step process: first accept or reject the changes, then delete the comments.
Remove tracked changes
- To look at each revision, one at a time, on the Review tab, click Next, and then Accept or Reject.Word keeps or removes the change and then goes to the next one.
- To accept all the changes at the same time, click the arrow next to Accept, and then click Accept All Changes.
- To reject all the changes at the same time, click the arrow next to Reject, and then click Reject All Changes.
Remove comments
- On the Review tab, in the Comments section, click Next to select a comment.
- On the Review tab, click Delete.To delete all comments at once, click the arrow next to Delete, and then click Delete All Comments in Document.
Remove tracked changes
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- To look at each revision, one at a time, on the Review tab, under Changes, click Next, and then Accept or Reject.Word keeps or removes the change and then goes to the next one.
- To accept all the changes at the same time, click the arrow next to Accept, and then click Accept All Changes in Document.
- To reject all the changes at the same time, click the arrow next to Reject, and then click Reject All Changes in Document.
Remove comments
- On the Review tab, under Comments, click Next to select a comment.
- On the Review tab, click Delete.To delete all comments at once, click the arrow next to Delete, and then click Delete All Comments in Document.
Resolve conflicting changes
- In the message bar, click Resolve Conflicts.Word displays the Your conflicting changes pane that lists the conflicts, and the Conflicts tab appears on the ribbon.
- In the Your conflicting changes pane, click a conflicting change to highlight the conflicting part of the document.Word uses pink highlighting to mark the conflicting changes that you made and green highlighting to mark changes made by other authors. Any other tracked changes that are in the document are temporarily hidden.
- Do one of the following:ToDo thisKeep your changeTouchpad for desktop pc. With the implementation of gestures the touchpad has become an essential tool. Keep it civil and on topic. Follow. .Helpful resources.General rules.On the Conflicts tab, under Conflicting Changes, click Accept My Change.Remove your changeOn the Conflicts tab, under Conflicting Changes, click Reject My Change.