Word: Activate and Use Correction Mode

Word’s correction mode helps enormously when you are working on a document with several people. With it, the changes and comments of your colleagues are clearly visible to everyone. In this tutorial, we will show you how to activate and use the correction mode.

Activate and use correction mode in Word

Activate and use correction mode in Word

• Once you have finished writing a text and want to have it corrected or critically reviewed by experts, save it in activated correction mode. To do this, proceed as follows:

• In the Word menu, open the “Review” tab and activate the “Track Changes” command in the “Track” button. The symbol and command are now highlighted in blue. Everything that is deleted or added now appears red or crossed out in red in your document by default.

• You can select which changes should be displayed in your text in the submenu “Show Markup”. This becomes visible when you click on the small triangle next to “Show Markup”. Put a tick in front of the entries whose corrections you want to see in the document.

You can also change the formatting of the corrections. To do this, go to the submenu “Show Markup” and select the entry “Speech Bubbles”. The default setting is “Show only formatting and comments in balloons”. For example, if you want to see all changes outside the text, put a tick in front of “Show revisions in balloons”.

• When you get back a corrected and commented text, you can decide whether you want to apply all the changes directly or whether you want to check them step by step. Open the submenu to the “Accept” command on the “Review” tab and determine there how you want to proceed.

• Your proofreaders may also have had comments on the content of the text. These can be inserted by clicking on the command “New Comment” in the menu of the “Review” tab. A comment is now inserted at the position of the mouse in the text.

• If you return a commented document, you can jump from comment to comment using the commands “Previous element” and “Next element” in the “Comments” button.

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