If you have someone edit or proofread your paper for a class, they may have used either the “Comment” tool or the “Track Changes” tool in Microsoft Word. Even after incorporating the comments and the changes, you may still see the comments and the changes in the margin of your paper. Or, worse, when you upload the document to Blackboard, they show up when your instructor views your paper (as seen in the image below). Show Read on to learn how to remove both the tracked changes edits and the comments from your Word documents. How to Remove the Tracked Changes
Note: It is important to stop tracking in order to remove all of the changes and prevent any new changes that you many make from being tracked. You can now upload your document to Blackboard and the tracked changes will not appear (see image below). However, if you used the “comment” function, the comments will still appear when you upload to Blackboard (see image below). How to Remove the Comments
Now, when you upload your document to Blackboard, it will look normal (see image below) and will have neither comments nor tracked changes in the margin. Avoid unintentionally distributing hidden information, such as the document author and names that are associated with comments or tracked changes, by removing hidden data. 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. All comments that were inserted remain in the document until deleted. To show all changes and comments, click the Review tab on the ribbon, and click All Markup on the Tracking group. Use the Document Inspector to remove hidden data
Edit Document Properties, Personal Information and other document dataTo selectively edit document data, click the File tab > Info. Properties show in a pane on the right. Click Show All Properties. To add or change properties, hover your pointer over the property you want to update, for example Author, and enter the information. Click the File tab to return to your document and changes you made will be saved automatically. Hide revisions or commentsRemove all revisions or comments as outlined above. Remove Tracked Changes manually or selectivelyIf you turn on Track Changes, Word will save all changes and comments made.
The tracked changes in a document remain even after you have turned off Track Changes. To remove all tracked changes from a document, be sure that all changes are showing, and then do the following:
Edit Comments or Remove them selectively
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