Managing Changes

You can review the changes that you or other authors have made and then accept or reject them using the Track Changes toolbar buttons , or similar actions from the Edit > Review menu:

Track Changes: Enables or disables the track changes support for the current document.
Accept Change(s): Accepts the tracked change located at the cursor position. If you select a part of a delete or insert change, only the selected content is accepted. If you select multiple changes, all of them are accepted. For an insert change, it means keeping the inserted text and for a delete change, it means removing the content from the document.
Reject Change(s): Rejects the tracked change located at the cursor position. If you select a part of a delete or insert change, only the selected content is rejected. If you select multiple changes, all of them are rejected. For an insert change, it means removing the inserted text and for a delete change, it means preserving the original content from the document.
Comment Change: Opens a dialog box that allows you to add a comment to an existing tracked change. The comment appears in a callout box and a tooltip (when hovering over the change).
Highlight: Enables or disables the Highlight tool. Use the Highlight drop-down menu to select a new color.
Add Comment: Inserts a comment at the cursor position. The comment appears in a callout box and a tooltip (when hovering over the change).
Edit comment: Opens the Edit Comment dialog box that allows you to edit the selected comment.
Remove comment: Removes a selected comment.
Manage Reviews: Opens the Review view.

Track Changes Visualization Modes Drop-Down Menu

This drop-down menu includes specialized actions that allow you to switch between the following visualization modes:

View All Changes/Comments - This mode is active by default. When you use this mode, all tracked changes are represented in the Author mode.
View only Changes/Comments by - Only the tracked changes made by the author you select are presented.
View Final - This mode offers a preview of the document as if all tracked changes (both inserted and deleted) were accepted.
View Original -this mode offers a preview of the document as if all tracked changes (both inserted and deleted) were rejected. You cannot edit the document in this mode. Attempting to do so switches the view mode to View All Changes.

All four actions are available only in the drop-down menu in the Review toolbar. If you use

View Final mode and

View Original mode, highlighted comments are not displayed. To display highlighted comments, use

View All Changes/Comments.

To watch our video demonstration about the Track Changes support, go to http://oxygenxml.com/demo/Change_Tracking.html.