Revision Tracking

Excel's revision tracking feature enables multiple reviewers to edit a document without actually changing it. Instead, each reviewer's markups are displayed in the document window. At the conclusion of the reviewing process, someone with final say over document content reviews all of the edits and either accepts or rejects each of them. The end result is a final document that incorporates the accepted changes.

To turn revision tracking on or off

1.
Choose Tools > Track Changes > Highlight Changes (Figure 14).
Figure 14. Use commands on the Track Changes submenu to set up and use Excel's revision tracking feature.

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In the Highlight ...

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