Track Changes in Word 2016 - deletions not showing

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Hi all,

I am using Word 2016 and am having problems with track changes. I have it set to show All Markup and under the show markup I have insertions and deletions ticked; however, when I delete something in the Word document, it is not showing as strike though and as such I cannot see that it has been deleted. If I accept the changes, the deleted item will disappear, so it is taking them on board.

Any suggestions? - I am soon going to reinstall an earlier version if I can't solve this as it is completely unworkable.

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Stefan Blom 353.6K MVP Volunteer Moderator

In the Advanced Track Changes Options dialog box, make sure that "Deletions" is set to "Strikethrough" (and not to "Hidden" or "(none)").

To display the dialog box, click the dialog launcher in the Tracking group on the Review tab; in the Track Changes Options dialog box, click Advanced Options.

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Anonymous

Try setting the Reviewing Pane to Off:

Hope this helps,

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Anonymous

Try the following (as illustrated in the figure below) -- on the "Review" tab of the ribbon, in the "Tracking" section, choose "All Markup" from the dropdown list, then open the "Options" dialog and choose to show "Revisions" in the box labelled "Balloons in All Markup view show". You might also need or want to set the "Reviewing Pane" to "Off" in the box immediately below it.

I hope this helps.

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Stefan Blom 353.6K MVP Volunteer Moderator

In the Advanced Track Changes Options dialog box, choose how you want deletions to be shown (as strikethrough, for example). See screen shot below. Make any other changes that you want. When you are done, click OK to confirm the settings.

Then click Review | Show Markup | Ballons | Show Only Comments and Formatting in Balloons.

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Charles Kenyon 171.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2018-01-24T14:48:27+00:00

Hi All

I am using Word as part of Office 365 on my MacBook at home and using Word 2016 for Mac at work. I am having a version of the issue reported above where I can see some of the deletions that other reviewers have made to a word document but not all of them.

I have tried all of the fixed recommended in this thread but it is not helping to show all of the deletions. Interestingly, my colleague at work is reporting the same issue. It is particularly frustrating because we are the only 2 at work using Macs and everyone who is a Windows machine does not have this issue.

This partial rendering of deletions is particularly worrisome.

Any suggestions why Word for Mac is having issues.

Thanks

My suggestion will not help you. My suggestion is that it is because Word for the Mac is inferior to Word for Windows. I will not speculate as to reasons.

I would suggest posting a separate question because your problem is only tangentially related to the subject of this thread. By identifying it as a Mac issue, you will get more response from those who work with the Mac. In the meantime, I would suggest that only those who are operating in Windows accept all changes on your documents.

I would note that I have no recent experience with Macintosh computers (which I loved). I believe that the Word development team for the Mac has been working hard to bring the Mac version up to or ahead of the Windows version. Word was originally written for the Mac and ported to PC-DOS and then Windows. It currently lacks some of the features that have been a part of Word for Windows since Word 2007.

Based on the posts in the Word Answers forum, the Mac version seems to have a disproportionate number of problems.
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