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Additionally, we use color more sparingly within comments to give your documents a cleaner feel even if you are showing All Comments, and make the comment you are working with stand out more.ĭocument review is fundamentally about communication – Word 2013 makes communicating from within your documents easier than ever. In the Word 2013 screen shots above you will notice that track changes and comment still show up per user in red, blue, etc., but the shades of color used have been updated. Specifically, we wanted to maximize the positive impact color can have to make things stand out, while minimizing distractions that may occur when color is used excessively. We made some simple but useful visual changes to both track changes and comments – all focused on color. Modernize how track changes and comments look People and communication are integrated into comments.In addition to a simpler view of tracked changes and comments (without losing any of the power of previous versions of Word), in the Word 2013 screen shots above, you may have noticed two additional ways we polished document review: With the new revision view modes, you’re only seeing the track changes and comments that you want, when you want. you don’t care about the tracked changes nor comments)? Switch into reading mode and immerse yourself in the body of the document. Want to hop on your couch with your tablet and just read the document (a.k.a. Want to see all of the tracked changes and comments like in previous version of Word? Switch into “All Markup” view.
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Want to see the full comment? Click it or hover over it. Want to see the tracked changes? Click on the red bar to the left of the text. In this view, we keep the document clean, make it clear where tracked changes and comments are, and give you the ability to easily review the tracked changes and comments as you’d like to. These documents are being displayed in our new “Simple Markup” view of track changes and comments. But we wondered if we could find other ways to present this information optimized for specific scenarios, such as reading the document.įor example, here are those exact same documents opened in Word 2013: Are there some scenarios where presenting all of that information at once (as pictured above) is ideal? Yes. Is the information provided by tracked changes and comments in the previous pictures useful? Yes. While tracked changes and comments can greatly enhance your ability to review documents, we wanted to provide you with a bit more choice in how you see them. Simple Markup – The New Default View in Word 2013įor example, while reviewing documents it is not uncommon to open one that look like this: In his introductory post describing Word 2013, Tristan mentioned our focus on polishing existing user experiences/scenarios over “adding new features.” One of the specific scenarios we polished up in Word 2013 is reviewing documents. Today’s post comes from Jonathan Bailor, the program manager on the Word team responsible for features for comments and revision tracking.