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• Turn Track Changes off or on, or hide or reveal tracked changes

  19 Apr 2011

  Today's post about track changes in Word is contributed by Louis Broome, a manager and writer for Office.com . To turn Track Changes off, on the Review tab, in the Tracking group, click the Track Changes button (the paper & pencil with the healthy orange glow, pictured below). Here's the relevant...
• A Word 2007 Redaction Tool

  22 Sep 2008

  Update: Links updated to v1.0 version of the tool [12.4.08 5pm PST] As someone who cares a lot about programmability in Word, I'm always looking for ways to showcase how powerful our object model is, and how it can be used to build really great solutions. With that in mind, I've been looking into ways...
• Pasting Tracked Changes

  5 Sep 2008

  We've all likely had adventures with paste in Word. While it's hard, if not impossible, to get paste "right" given the fact that we can't guess user intent with 100% accuracy, we're always working to make the most commonly used command in Word better. Since we ship only once every couple of years, let...
• Who is "Author?" Part 2

  17 Jun 2008

  Thanks to some great comments from Jeremy and PamC on the Who is "Author?" post it looks there are a few additional points worth making about the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Document Inspector. Since this is only mentioned briefly in Who is "Author?," I wanted to call-out that only the...
• Who is "Author?"

  13 Jun 2008

  Personally identifiable information (PII) is a hot-button issue these days. If you've ever had your identity stolen, you'll understand why. Personally, I spent about six months clearing up my identity being stolen about a year ago. Lame. If are concerned with PII in your Word documents—because maybe...
• Word Q & A: Is the change tracking off?

  6 Jun 2008

  This is a true story: I'm riding my bike home from work. It's a pretty long ride—almost 18 miles. I'm about a third of the way into it, past the first big intersection and pedaling along the shoulder up a slight grade when my cell phone rings. It's my husband. "How do I turn those change marks off?"...
• Comparing and Combining Documents

  6 Aug 2007

  The document review scenario has been significantly improved in Word 2007. It's pretty straightforward and powerful technology once you have the basic idea. So let's start with getting a grasp around the difference between Word's two document review options: compare and combine. While they both tell...
• Extending the Document Inspector

  5 Apr 2007

  In my last post we talked about the document inspector (DI) functionality available out of the box in the Office Word 2007; however, we neglected to cover all of the rich extensibility that's possible. So, after some delay, here we go. We can create new inspector modules in unmanaged and managed code...
• The Document Inspector

  16 Mar 2007

  Intro I just wanted to introduce myself quickly as I am a new poster. My name is Reed Shaffner and I am the newly appointed world-wide product manager for Microsoft Word. In addition to working on Word, I also do a lot of work around accessibility and sustained engineering across the Office Client. The...
• Contextual Spell Checking

  25 Oct 2006

  Spellchecking is not perfect, but I would not have gotten through school without it. :) Despite my love for spelling and grammar checking, I'm aware of its limitations. Specifically, previous versions of Word will tell you when what you type is misspelled or grammatically incorrect, but it does not catch...
• Nice Move: Move Tracking in Word 2007

  13 Oct 2006

  This post was co-authored by Margaret Plumley. Margaret's been a member of the Word program management team for about 2-1/2 years and worked for Windows before then. If you've ever collaborated on a Word document you know all about 'Track Changes'. In previous versions of Word, if you cut part of your...