
Click on the drop down button with the pen icon to change from editing to either reviewing or viewing. Version history can help you get back any content you overwrite, but should be used as a correction to a mistake, not as a workflow for reviewing and tracking changes. This allows you to make changes as normal, including autosave functions. You’ll find this feature as a drop down selection up at the top, on the ribbon below the doc title and next to Clippy’s descendent, the “tell me what you want to do” help search bar. Let’s go over the options and the steps to enabling these statuses. It’s just a quick drop down to start tracking changes, or make the file read only for yourself to block changes. Now this feature is available on Word online and is always visible in the top ribbon. This feature initially was not present in the online version of Word, so you’d have to tell someone to open the file in the local app to see any of those markups. If you enable track changes, anything you change will be marked as a suggestion that can be approved or denied. On the Word desktop application, track changes is great for collaboration.

A recent update makes collaboration from anywhere even easier with easier access to reviewing in Office online applications.

The use of the online version of Word has been incredibly useful for working in the cloud. Office 365 collaboration features make the user experience behind working from anywhere a reality.
