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Barry uses Word's Track Changes feature to keep tabs on what many different reviewers do to a document. He recently asked if there was a way to accept all the changes from a particular reviewer, but not those from the other reviewers.
This is rather simple to do in Word. Just follow these steps:
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2018-04-12 22:11:54
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Thank you!
2016-07-19 17:33:34
Jackie C.
Is there a simple way to extract or display the number of changes/comments made by each author in a document? I can look at the reviewing pane for each author individually, but I would love a way to display them all at once.
2015-12-01 22:43:05
Michael Vnuk
I thought such a feature would be there, but I found it quicker with your site than with Help in Word. And it works. Thanks.
2015-07-14 11:31:10
Maricruz Saenz
I do not have a choice by name.Under Reviewers is just All Reviewers. What can I do to make the names of the Reviewers appear individually?
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