What is Track Changes?
Track Changes is a way to keep track of the changes made to a document. This isgreat for showing what your work started like compared to the final version. It is also goodfor doing partner proofreading for errors in spelling, punctuation or grammar.
You can choose to display those changes, or to hide them. Hiding them doesn't makethem go away. The only way to remove the tracked changes is to accept or reject them.
How to Start Tracking the Changes to a Document
Click on the
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Track Changes
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button on the toolbarOR click on Edit >Track Text Changes
The Change Tracking Control Bar
When you turn on the tracking, this toolbar opens and a comments pane area opens up tothe left of the document.
Tracking Changes in Action
•One student writes a story in Pages and saves it without tracking changes.•Their editing partner then opens up the story, turns on Track Changes and finds a fewspelling errors that they think need to be corrected. They then correct these errors andsave the story.•The writer of the story opens up the document once more, turns on Track Changes andreviews the changes to the spelling. They decide which they agree with and will thereforeaccept and which they don
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t agree with (the editing partner may have made an error aswell).Change Tracking ToolbarComments PaneClick on the tick or cross inthe change bubble toaccept or reject a change.
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