The key setting is “Use balloons to display changes”. You can switch between them by clicking on the “Options…” button on the earlier dialog box. You might start out with “edit balloons”, which some people prefer, but I like the old style because it lets you have more of the document on screen. This is the old style revision tracking, actually. Now, when you add or delete material, it shows you visually what’s happened: Usually you’ll want to show the changes on screen and with printouts, but you can turn that off, as you can see, and it still keeps track of everything.

Now the program is keeping track of any tweaks you - or anyone else in your organization - makes. Once you’ve done that, it pulls up a small dialog box that gives you access to the critical setting:Īs you can doubtless guess, the key box to check is “Track changes while editing”.

To enable it, you simply select “highlight changes” from the “change tracking” option under “Tools”: The feature you’re talking about is “change tracking” though most people I know call it “revision tracking”.