Intro & Reviewing Toolbar | Commenting | Track Changes | Merging Tracked Changes
Master Documents | Versioning

Introduction:
In your work, you may find that you need to create and edit text documents with another person, or with a group, or you may wish to create collaborative exercises for your class. Fortunately, Word takes into consideration this potential, and comes equipped with several features that make the group reviewing process easier.

Note: Please refer to our Word tutorial for more general information about this program. If you do not have much previous experience using Word, then you may want to review that tutorial before starting this one.

Reviewing toolbar:
In order to edit and work in a collaborative setting, you should use the "Reviewing toolbar." You can bring this toolbar up by navigating to the “View” menu bar, and select “Toolbars” >> “Reviewing.” Once the toolbar appears, you will see a set of icons that you should start to learn. Note that the toolbar contains many other buttons and options that may not immediately be available. Depending upon which version of Word you are using, these icons may appear slightly different:

1. Display for Review:
   Choose which version of the document you wish to view for review.
2. Show:
   Choose which items you wish to have shown in your document while reviewing.
3. Previous:
   View the previous change.
4. Next:
   View the next change.
5. Accept Change:
   Accept the current change.
6. Reject Change / Delete Comment:
   Reject the current change, or delete the current comment.
7. Insert Comment:
   Insert a comment while reviewing.
8. Highlight:
   Highlight a certain section of the document; default color is yellow.
9. Track Changes:
   Toggle on/off the ability to track changes while working on a document.
10. Reviewing Pane:
    Open a new (large) window at the bottom of the screen that keeps track of all changes made to a document.

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