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Writing & Grammar: Can I Change the Appearance of Balloons in Word 2007?

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Click the bottom half of the Track Changes tool, and select Change Tracking Options. If you choose By author , Word automatically assigns each person who comments on the document a different color. At the bottom of the Styles pane, click the Manage Styles tool. You find this from the Review tab.

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Writing & Grammar: Where Did My Name Go?

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When the copies came back, every change was marked as coming from "Author." In Word 2003, that function is found under Tools > Options > User Information. In Word 2007, that is found under Office Button > Word Options > Popular. On most documents, that tool is grayed out as unavailable.

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Editing with Acrobat: Get the Comment Pane's Numbers to Match Acrobat's Page Numbers

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Endless confusion resulted when she tried to discuss editorial changes with authors--Is that on page 2? Acrobat picked this number up from the desktop publishing software used to create the document. .    Need help with Acrobat's many editing tools? or page 21?

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Microsoft Word: To Track or Not to Track Changes

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by Jennie Ruby Track Changes in Microsoft Word is an indispensible tool for editing, but it is not the best tool for the job in every editorial situation. Even if a reviewer of the edited document wanted Power Point to be printed with a space, you would not allow it, because PowerPoint is the proper name of the software.

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Writing & Grammar: Ways to Deal With Tracked Changes Aversion

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" Editors and publications people take my classes, but then express despair at the thought of getting their colleagues to cooperate in doing their reviews with the software: "I can see a fight coming." I have also had success including a brief how-to about the Comments tool. " "My boss hates tracked changes."

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Writing & Grammar: A Brief History of Editing

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When WordPerfect came out with their "redlining" feature, I jumped on it, but stick-in-the-mud reviewers and authors balked, claiming the marked up text was hard to read. Word 2007 and 2010 solve that with an elegant green double-strikethrough and double-underline format with links between the moved from and moved to locations.

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Microsoft Word: Customize the Status Bar

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In Word 2007 or 2010, the Track Changes shortcut appears at first to be absent, but if you right-click the status bar, you get a menu in which you can choose to add the Track Changes shortcut. Once that tool is on your status bar, you can turn Track Changes on and off without a trip to the Review tab. .

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