Track changes are used in a document if it’s going to be altered many times. This feature allows you to “track the changes” and go back to the original if you need to. It’s a great tool for contracts, memos, announcements etc. Hope you find this tip useful!  

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Word 2007 | How To Insert Track Changes (PDF)

HOW TO INSERT TRACK CHANGES ON A DOCUMENT

1. Click on the “REVIEW” tab on the top of the worksheet.

2. Check that “TRACK CHANGES” is highlighted.

3. Highlight the text you want to change.

4. Type in the new text.

5. These changes will show up in red in the text

6. Highlight the text in which you want to change the format.

7. Choose the new format (in this example we choose “BOLD”).

8. These changes will show up as notes in the margin.

These are some of the most basic formatting tasks in Word 2007. It’s helpful to get a strong understanding of these as they’ll save you so much time down the road. That’s the goal, right?

There are a lot of tricks to help you shortcut your work with headers and footers. We’ll post them on future blogs. For the meantime, these are listed for your basic knowledge.

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 How To Add A Header

1.    Click on the “INSERT” tab.

2.    Click on “Header” in the “Header & Footer” section.

3.    Click on the style you would like (In this case we chose “Alphabet”).

4.    The header is placed at the top of every page.

5.    Write your title.

6.    Click on “Close Header and Footer”.

7.    The title will be placed at the top of every page.

How To Add A Header (PDF)

How To Remove A Header

1.    Click on the “INSERT” tab.

2.    Click on “Footer” in the “Header & Footer” section.

3.    Click on “Remove Footer”.

4.    The footer will be removed from every page.

How To Remove A Header (PDF)

How to Add A Footer

1.    Click on the “INSERT” tab.

2.    Click on “Footer” in the “Header & Footer” section.

3.    Click on the style you would like (In this case we chose “Alphabet”).

4.    The footer is placed at the top of every page.

5.    Insert your text.

6.    Click on “Close Header and Footer”.

7.    The footer will be placed at the bottom of every page.

How To Add A Footer (PDF)

How To Remove A Footer

1.    Click on the “INSERT” tab.

2.    Click on “Footer” in the “Header & Footer” section.

3.    Click on “Remove Footer”.

4.    The footer will be removed from every page.

How To Remove A Footer (PDF)