Question

How can a document be checked to determine if any tracked changes or comments remain?

Answer 1

To check if any tracked changes or comments remain in a document, you can turn off Track Changes and review the changes panel. You can accept or reject changes individually or all at once and delete comments to ensure they don't appear in the final draft.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. To ensure that changes you make to the document will not be saved as edits, go to the tools ribbon, and toggle Track Changes to off.
2. To open a panel that displays all changes, click Reviewing or Reviewing Pane in the tools ribbon.
3. To navigate to a specific revision, click the revision in this panel.
4. To accept or reject changes in a Word document, open the document and click the Review tab above the tools ribbon.
5. To accept a revision, click Accept in the tools ribbon.
6. To reject a revision, click Reject in the tools ribbon.
7. The arrows below or beside the Accept and Reject buttons open drop-down menus that give you the option either to accept or reject a change and then move to the next revision or to accept or reject all changes at once. **Be careful not to accept or reject all changes without addressing each one individually.**
8. When you finish, be sure you have accepted or rejected all of the edits and deleted all comments so that they don't appear in the final draft.
9. Check that no red text remains in the paper and that no comments remain in the right margin.
10. When you are finished, be sure to save your changes.