Click the down arrow on Track Changes > Track Changes to turn it on or off.

If you turn on Track Changes, Word will save all changes and comments made. Remove Tracked Changes manually or selectively Remove all revisions or comments as outlined above. Click the File tab to return to your document and changes you made will be saved automatically. To add or change properties, hover your pointer over the property you want to update, for example Author, and enter the information. To selectively edit document data, click the File tab > Info.

After you have completed these steps, save the document, and it will no longer contain the items you have removed.Įdit Document Properties, Personal Information and other document data.

Click Remove All to remove the item of your choice, for example all comments, revisions, versions and annotations.

Click Inspect to identify hidden content.

The Word Document Inspection window shown below opens up.

To open the Document Inspector, click File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document.

Use the Document Inspector to remove hidden data

To show all changes and comments, click the Review tab on the ribbon, and click All Markup on the Tracking group. All comments that were inserted remain in the document until deleted.

All the revisions that were made to a document while the Track Changes feature was turned on remain part of a Word document until they are accepted or rejected. Avoid unintentionally distributing hidden information, such as the document author and names that are associated with comments or tracked changes, by removing hidden data.

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