How To Track Changes In Word Mac

Runway changes in Pages on Mac

You lot tin runway changes to body text and text in text boxes, shapes, and footnotes (including certificate and department endnotes). When tracking is turned on, changed text appears in a different color from the surrounding text, and modify bars appear in the margin.

To review, approve, and decline changes, yous can use the review toolbar and the Comments & Changes sidebar.

The Pages toolbar with change tracking turned on and the review toolbar below the Pages toolbar.

Note: If the document is shared on iCloud and you turn on change tracking, only people using Pages on a Mac, iOS device, or iPadOS device can edit the document. People who don't have the Pages app and are using Pages for iCloud to collaborate can only view the document.

Turn modify tracking on or off

Exercise whatsoever of the following:

Turn on tracking: Choose Edit > Track Changes (from the Edit menu at the pinnacle of your screen). If the review toolbar is showing above your document, you can as well click Track Changes in the toolbar.
Plough off tracking: Click , then cull Plow Off Tracking. You must either accept or reject all changes before you tin can turn tracking off.
Intermission tracking: Move the slider in the review toolbar to Paused. Changes you brand while tracking is paused don't show in the markup.

View or hibernate tracked changes in the document

In the review toolbar, click .
Choose an choice:
- Markup:Displays deletions with a strikethrough and new text in a different color from the surrounding text.
- Markup Without Deletions:Displays only the new text in a different color from the surrounding text. Deleted text is hidden.
- Final:Displays text without markup, and deleted text is hidden. Pages continues to rail changes, so if y'all alter to a different view, you can see them.

Accept or decline changes

To be sure all changes are visible, click in the review toolbar, and so set up the change tracking view to Markup.
Do whatsoever of the following:
- For a specific change: Motion the arrow over the marked text, then click Have or Refuse.
  
  In the Comments & Changes sidebar, you can accept or turn down a modify.
- For all changes in a range of text: Select the text, then click Accept or Reject in the review toolbar. All tracked changes within the range are accepted or rejected at once.
- For all text in the certificate: Click in the review toolbar, then choose Accept All Changes or Reject All Changes.
  
  If you reject all changes, the text reverts to the land of the certificate before yous started tracking.

Review changes in the Comments & Changes sidebar

You can review and edit changes in the Comments & Changes sidebar on the left side of the Pages window.

To open the Comments & Changes sidebar, click in the toolbar, then cull Show Comments & Changes Pane. Click the push button again to close the sidebar.
To change what's shown in the sidebar, click View Options at the meridian of the sidebar to sort by page or appointment, filter changes by author, and hide comments or hibernate changes.

If you choose Sort by Certificate from the View Options carte, the sidebar scrolls as you scroll the certificate.

If you filter changes by writer so that your changes aren't visible in the sidebar, and so you make changes, your changes appear in the document but not in the sidebar. To make changes appear in the sidebar, alter the filter to include your changes, or click Show All at the pinnacle of the sidebar.
To see a specific annotate or alter, movement your pointer over it in the document; the sidebar scrolls to prove the content, and a line appears connecting the modify with its respective entry in the sidebar. If you lot don't run into a line, make certain no sidebar item is selected.

To widen or narrow the sidebar, elevate its right edge.

To change the size of the text in the sidebar and in comments, choose Pages > Preferences (from the Pages carte at the elevation of your screen), then click General at the elevation of the window. Click the Text Size popular-upwards menu, then choose a size.

If you transport your certificate to someone else and they open it in Pages on their iPhone or iPad, the document opens in Final View (with change tracking subconscious). To see additions and deletions, they must tap at the summit of the screen.