The track changes feature in Word is a great tool to go through a Word document and edit it. It shows exactly where changes in the document have been made and highlights each change.
As you can imagine though, this can also be very embarrassing if you accidentally submit the Word document to your professor or client with all the track changes present.
Hence, we will be showing you how you can quickly turn off track changes in a Word document.
Properly Turn Off Track Changes in Word
The proper way to turn off track changes in Word is to first either accept or reject the changes and then have the document stop tracking changes.
1. Open the Word document with the track changes.
2. Click on the Review tab and then click on Next (See image below)
This will highlight one of the changes in your document.
3. Now click on Accept or Reject to accept the highlighted change to your document.
After clicking on Accept or Reject the document will automatically highlight the next markup to your document.
4. Click on Accept or Reject for all the remaining changes, until you see the following pop-up (See image below).
5. Click on Ok from the pop up.
6. Now click on the Review tab from the top and then click on Track Changes and Word will no longer be tracking the changes you make to the document.
To confirm that the track changes no longer appear in the Word document, close the document and reopen it.