First, you need to open your Normal template and clear the Track Formatting check box within it. In my experience, you need to undertake a three-pronged approach. Thus, if the change is persistent for documents on your system, once you send the document off to someone else and if they use a different version of Word, you may get back a document that has the setting turned back on and all formatting changes are marked. Still others say that the change will reset if you turn Track Changes off and then turn it on again.įrom what I've been able to determine, the persistence of this setting will vary based on the version of Word you are using. Some people say that the change will travel with the document others say that it doesn't. The problem is that making this setting isn't always sticky. The Advanced Track Changes Options dialog box in Word 2016. Word displays the Advanced Track Changes Options dialog box. Word displays the Tracking group options. Click OK to close the Track Changes Options dialog box.įinally, if you are using Word 2016 or a later version of the program (including the version provided with Office 365), follow these steps:.Click OK to close the Advanced Track Changes Options dialog box.The Advanced Track Changes Options dialog box in Word 2013. Word displays the Track Changes Options dialog box. Click the small icon at the lower-right corner of the Tracking group.If you are using Word 2013, follow these steps instead: Click the down-arrow under the Track Changes tool (in the Tracking group) and then click Change Tracking Options.Make sure the Review tab of the ribbon is displayed.To turn off the tracking of formatting, you would follow these steps if you are using Word 2007 or Word 2010: How you adjust the categories of changes that Word tracks varies based on the version of Word you are using. This is what Martha does-she turns off one specific category of changes (formatting) so that Word doesn't track those it only tracks other types of changes. Fortunately, you can control the types of changes that Word actually tracks. One category of changes it can track are changes to formatting. When you turn on Track Changes in Word, the program tracks lots of changes you make.
Martha wonders if there is a way she can turn off the tracking of formatting changes forever.
(He doesn't want simple formatting changes to be tracked.) Plus, when he passes the document to a client (via email), if they don't know how to turn off the tracking of formatting changes, the returned document is always full of tracked formatting changes. He is annoyed by having to turn track formatting off all the time.
NB: After the automatic formatting has been applied, it's not simple to revert back to the previous formatting as the colour codes disappear, so I have to manually restore them by retyping the RGB codes, which is why it's such a pain.Martha works for an attorney who uses Track Changes a lot when working with clients. How can I prevent Excel 2013 applying the automatic formatting every time I make a change in a chart?
This enabled me to easily create multiple charts with a consistent format. In older versions of Excel, changing the underlying data did not change the chart formatting. This is problematic because I like to create one master chart which is formatted exactly how I like it, then copy this chart several times so that I can re-use it with different underlying data.
change the cell range that a series refers to), the fill and border options lose the specified formatting and go back to automatic. Every time I change anything in the chart (e.g. fill colours, border colours) and changing them back to automatic. The chart formatting in Excel 2013 is driving me crazy because it keeps losing my user-specified formats (e.g.