The text shown is with the changes applied. You don’t know what the changes are - you just know that there are some insertions, deletions, or moves.

With Simple Markup, you just get a vertical line to the side of the text (on the left for a left page on the right for a right page if you have different left and right page layout) that tells you there’s one or more changes on that line or lines.

In previous versions of Word, the view markup options were Final: Show Markup (now Simple Markup and All Markup - see below for differences) Final (now No Markup) Original: Show Markup (no longer available) and Original (same).įrom my testing, the difference between Simple and All Markup is whether or not the changes are shown: Click the top half of this big button to turn track changes on and off click the lower half to open a submenu for turning track changes on and off (again!) and for locking track changes so that others can’t delete them. This button is now divided in two, though it’s not obvious as there’s no dividing line. All track changes options are on the Review tab. This blog post describes some of those changes, and some recommended best practices.

The track changes settings in Word 2013 (and later) have changed in several ways.

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