Key Points

  • When you collaborate on a document, you can turn on the Track Changes feature so that the revisions you make to the document are recorded without the original text being lost.

  • You can insert comments in a document to ask questions or explain suggested edits. In the document, Word inserts colored brackets around commented text and displays the comment in a balloon in the margin of the document.

  • You can protect a document with a password so that only certain people can open it.

  • You can restrict who can make editing and formatting changes to a document. You can also specify that only comments can be inserted in the document, or you can require that changes be made using change tracking.

  • You can send a document for review via e-mail, and then ...

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