If, instead, you choose to act as the author, your modifications won’t appear in color, but you will be able to go through the document and selectively accept or reject changes that other people have made. The advantage of doing so is that your revisions (insertions and deletions) will automatically appear in color as you work on the document - emulating, at least to a certain degree, the way that Track Changes works. Your first impulse might be to click “Author.” However, even if you are the author of the document, you can - and might want to - work on the doc as a reviewer. You will see a dialog box that allows you to act as a reviewer or as the document author. Once you have created a backup, open it into WordPerfect and click the File menu, Document, Review.

Nor does it work exactly the same way.īefore you test the feature, be sure to make a copy of your document, for two reasons: (1) so that you don’t accidentally overwrite a critical file, and (2) so that you have the option of keeping sequential drafts of the doc for purposes of comparing the drafts later on if you wish. The feature in WordPerfect that most closely resembles Track Changes is called “Document Review.” It serves some of the same purposes as Track Changes, but - be forewarned - not all of them. Word users who also occasionally work in WordPerfect sometimes ask whether WP has a comparable feature. For example, I have set my Track Changes options so that insertions appear in blue with double underlining and deletions appear in red with a strikeout line (also in red).Īnother convenient aspect of Track Changes is that when someone (whether the document author or a reviewer) positions the mouse pointer over revisions, a pop-up indicates who made the change, as well as the date / time and the nature of the modification. It allows each user to select specific font colors, underlining styles, and other font attributes for text that is redlined, stricken, or moved. Many people who use MS Word are accustomed to turning on the “Track Changes” feature when they want the program to mark revisions (insertions, deletions, and moved text) automatically as they type. Does WordPerfect have a “Track Changes” feature? Well, sort of…

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