I might start at the very beginning of my document. Suppose somebody had made changes to this document and I want to see what changes they made. Usually the easiest one to work is either this final or final show markup if you want to see the markup. And that goes back, our bottle goes back to rum and we don't see the edit that we just made. Now, if we want to see the original you can just go to the original and click that. We've got the little bar along this side here to show if you're quickly scanning a page you can see where the edits are. When we see Final and Markup, it shows us the change with the edit-in-place, both the text that's deleted and then the text that's inserted is underlined. And then it just shows us the change that we've made. Now, if we find it difficult to work in that view, what you can do is go up here to the Display in the Tracking Group here, this Display menu, and choose Final.

So now we have two edits in the document and we can see them. Now, if I select rum and I type in milk, it's deleting the word rum and adding the word milk, and we can see that change in my document. And this will be highlighted if you're tracking the changes. Just by clicking that button, you can see it has a few different options in here, but Track Changes is the one that you want to toggle on. The first thing to do if you want to track changes in a document is to go up here to the Review tab and then turn on the Track Changes. We're going to change, yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, to a bottle of milk. And suppose we want to change the words in this song. You can see what changes are made and you have the option to accept or reject those changes. But it's especially helpful when someone else is editing your document.

Sometimes this is helpful when you're working alone. Word can keep track of changes made to a document marking the text that is added, known as Insertions, or the text that's removed, known as Deletions.

Tracking in word document