To turn off revision tracking, click the Track Changes button again. (Those aren't really text attributes, but rather are Word showing you which text has been messed with. Text you delete is colored red with strikethrough. Any new text you add appears in red underlining. With revision tracking turned on, simply start editing the document. To note changes on the screen as they're made, simply activate Word's revision-tracking feature: Click the Review tab and then click the Track Changes button. There's no way to identify your original text from the modified text - unless you use Word 2007's Track Changes tool. They'll make revisions by adding to your carefully written work, moving stuff around, and deleting text (ouch!). In the Run dialog box, type this: winword.exe /a (note the space after exe and before the /a switch)Įditing in Word 2007: Track Changes and Review If that does not work open it from a cmd. * In Word 2003, click Unprotect on the Tools menu. * In Word 2007, click the Review tab, click Protect Document in the Protect group, click Restrict Formatting and Editing, and then click Stop Protection. To do this, perform one of the following actions: If you receive a document that is protected for comments, you can remove the protection. When you open such a file in an earlier version of Word, the document opens as protected for comments, permitting users to make comments to the file but not permitting edits to the content. When you use this feature, you can make the overall content read-only while you grant editing permissions to specific users for specific parts of the document. Word 2003 and later versions of Word have a feature that permits you to assign permissions to specific parts of a document to specific users. I know it says - in an earlier version but try it anyway. Hold down the Ctrl key and then open Word, say yes to the pop-up.