# Easy Word Question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-word-question/465328>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 26, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-word-question/465328 "2008-09-26T14:17:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-word-question/465328/1 "2008-09-26T14:17:08Z")

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My muse is upon me and I am writing. A would-be collaborator encouraged me to use “track changes” for the first time(then disappeared without adding anything.

Now my work is full of changes I myself made, highlighted in red, with notes, all sorts of things I do not understand.

**How can I simply accept all the changes and turn off this silly function?**  
I would appreciate your thoughts.

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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-word-question/465328/2 "2008-09-26T14:23:53Z")

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There should be a set of buttons that you can use to handle the changes. There’s one with a blue arrow to accept the change, and one with a red “x” to reject the change. When you click on one side of those, it offers the option of accepting or rejecting all at once, rather than one at a time.

If you don’t have them, they are in the “Formatting” tool bar, and I think that if you right click on a tool bar you are offered the chance to add or delete other toolbars.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-word-question/465328/3 "2008-09-26T14:29:54Z")

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That was it. Many thinks.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-word-question/465328/4 "2008-09-26T17:55:05Z")

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That was it. Many thanks.\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Deleted “i”

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