Managing Changes

You can review the changes you or other authors made and then accept or reject them using the Track Changes toolbar buttons , or the 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 change located at the caret position. If you select a part of a delete or insert change, then 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 change located at the caret position. If you select a part of a delete or insert change, then 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: You can decide to add additional comments to an already existing change. The additional description appears in the tooltip when hovering over the change and in the Manage Tracked Changes dialog box when navigating changes.
Highlight: Enables or disables the Highlight tool. Use the Highlight drop-down list to select a new color.
Add Comment: Inserts a comment in the document you are editing, at the caret position.
Edit Comment: Edits a selected comment from the edited document.
Remove Comment: Removes a selected comment from the edited document.
Manage Reviews: Opens the Review view.

Track Changes Visualization Modes Drop-Down List

This drop-down list 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 list 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.