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Track Changes icon in Ribbon changed from switch to dropdown (with no update)
As a proofreader you need to know that the changes are being tracked. The green slider button did just that, although crazily even that was greyed out with one change to the ribbon.
PLEASE PLEASE restore the button.
EDITOR is also a terrible change.
Everything functioned fine before.
Terrible time-wasting changes.
mattproofing So I found that once you turn track changes on, it appears at the bottom of the screen as "Track Changes on" and you toggle it from there. Still prefer it at the top with the green and red button.
- I get no "track changes' toggle at the bottom of my screen. Perhaps because I'm working in Word for Mac?
Hi Lisa -
I'm on Mac too and when I installed Office 365 I had the toggle button at top. When I restarted my machine it was replaced by the hopeless pen/paper icon. So much worse. But you can get the 'track changes on/off' option at base of screen. Go to bottom of screen - the part where you get page count, word number details etc shown - right click - then you'll get a pop-up menu of options to be shown in that part of the screen - among which is 'track changes.'
- I'm in Word for Mac too. This is what I see: /Users/elaynewellsharmer/Desktop/Screen Shot 2022-02-28 at 11.48.01 AM.png
(Sorry, not sure why you get a link instead of a picture.) I went to Tools-->Track Changes-->Highlight Changes and checked all boxes. Then it should show up at the bottom. Amen to everything you said above!! I'm an editor too and this is driving me nuts, because I work with Markup off (hate seeing all the red), and when I turn off Track Changes (like you said, to delete a space) and then turn it back on, it changes the view so then I have to go back in and click on Markup. Argh!!!I've been completely aghast at this too, but I think I found the solution (at least to the problem as it affected me; possibly I've misunderstood other ppl's predicaments).
Previously, that nice green button-toggle was accessed by clicking in the toolbar on the dropdown icon "track changes" (picture of a pencil aslant a piece of paper). The green button you slid to turn on/off tracking was among a few dropdown options there.
Now THE ENTIRE ICON BUTTON has become, in effect, the green toggle. If you click it once, the background to the tiny picture of paper and pencil goes dark grey; this means tracking is on. Click it again and it returns to the same light grey as the rest of the toolbar; now tracking is off.
I hope that solves problems for some. Upside is it's one less click; downside is light/dark grey visually much less salient than the nice green button.
