How to accept or reject changes in Word Online

In the previous article, we discussed tracking changes; this article takes things a step further and examines how to accept changes to the document and how to reject changes that you do not want to incorporate.

How to accept or reject changes in Word Online

Let us discuss how to do this on a PC and Mac OS individually.

Case-1: On PC

Follow the below steps

1. Open the Word online document you would like to work with.

2. Click on Review in the top ribbon of the document.

3. On the right, you will see the track changes option. Here, you can accept or reject changes by simply clicking on the icon. Check out the screenshot below for more information.

You can accept or reject changes one at a time, including all changes made to the document.

Alternatively,

While editing documents using track changes, it becomes necessary to either accept or reject changes. There are two ways to do this.

• Accept or reject changes from the drop-down section

The panel on the top has all the options handy. This includes accepting or rejecting changes. It also has options to move forward and backward through the document to find the next edit faster.

• Accept or reject changes by right-clicking the change

This is a more straightforward way of accepting or rejecting changes.

Right-click on the edited text, and you can accept or reject the edit.

Case-2: Using Mac

While working on a Mac system, you can accept or reject changes, just like you can with Word Online. Here are the steps you can follow.

• Locate and open the Word document you would like to review

• Click on Review in the top ribbon of your document.
• Under Review, you will see the option titled Changes with an arrow. Click on the arrow for a dropdown menu.

• You will see four significant options: Accept, Reject, Previous change, and Next change.
• When you click on Accept, you can either accept one change and move to the next or accept all.

• The same is the case with changes that you want to Reject. You can either reject one change at a time or reject all the changes made to the document.

How to accept all changes in Word online and stop tracking?

While accepting or rejecting changes, Word users can do it one at a time or do it all. Once. In this section, we will look at how you can Accept all the changes made to a document and stop tracking future changes.

1. Open the document you would like to work on.

2. Start by clicking on Review in the top ribbon of the document.

3. Under review, you will see a section titled Changes with an arrow. Clicking on Changes will open a dropdown menu.

4. Here, you will see Accept. Click on it from more options.

5. Under Accept, you can Accept all changes and stop tracking. Click on it.