Review tracked changes with new cards in Word

This is really another terrible change in a long line of them which makes Microsoft products significantly worse, more difficult to use and is genuinely mystifying. Whoever thought this was an improvement cannot possibly have used tracked changes regularly - it's difficult to see what anyone thought the benefit could possibly be - the disadvantages are obvious. As many many others have pointed out, it gets in the way, is obtrusive unhelpful and adds nothing. If these kind of 'features' are to be added why oh why would there not be an option to turn off. Microsoft regularly roll out downgrades then extol the virtues of how they are ruining the product. Those who use it regularly get annoyed and the developers are paid again to fix the problem they created, if we are lucky. There's an ever-growing list of recent downgrades rolled out - modern comments, tracked changes cards, stupid-sized attachment icons in outlook, left click spell check, stupid pop ups everywhere - there may be one or two people who though they were a good idea, fine but for the other 99% of people, why can't we turn them off?! It's clear those who dream up these ideas don't actually use the products (if they did, there's no way the downgrades would have been rolled out at all, let alone without an opt out).  evannfarmer 

evannfarmerplease, please let us turn this off.  I can'r read what people have suggested in my document because the blithering cards keep popping up.  I don't work through a document accepting changes one by one, I read through them - reject the ones I don't like and then accept everything else.

And sometimes I need to keep the changes tracked so otehr people can see the amendments. And sometimes thats the case right the way through to documents being used in court.

If you introduce a disruptive new feature like this you MUST allow people to turn it off. Even the perpetrators of Modern Comments managed that eventuallyy.

evannfarmer I agree with the above comments. Can you please tell me how to turn this off? Thanks.

evannfarmer And how do we stop users from inadvertently rejecting changes by hitting the X to try to close the popup? It'll be like those revisions were never made and there will be no way to recover them. Of all the horrible changes Microsoft has been rolling out to Word, this one's the worst. Without the option to disable it we're going to get so many user errors.

The Track Changes Cards feature was apparently installed on my computer yesterday. I dislike the feature as much as others who have commented here before me.

To users who want to disable Track Changes Cards: I found out that I have a solution that disables the feature:

• My Word add-in DocTools StopSpellingPopUp also disables Track Changes Cards. You can download the add-in for free from https://wordaddins.com/products/stop-spelling-pop-up-in-word/.

For further details, please refer to the article I have just published, "How to disable Track Changes Cards in Word", https://wordaddins.com/support/how-to-disable-track-changes-cards-in-word/.

The inability to turn off this feature is *terrible* - truly awful. It is destroying productivity for my entire department, who rely on assessing heavily-tracked changes manuscripts without wanting to accept or reject edits. Please please please roll out a way of turning it off. evannfarmer