Click on another tool, either the hand or the arrow and it will automatically deselect the highlight tool. Another option is to select the highlight tool, right click, select Properties or CTRL+E, when the dialog box appears, uncheck the box labeled 'keep tool selected'. Jul 17, 2009 Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel. I received a document in which a lot of text had been highlighted. I need to remove it but when I select the text and on the Format Palette select None on the shading icon or click on File>Undo Highlighting.
I use change tracking in Microsoft Word to collaborate with others while jointly editing a document, however, I am not interested in tracking formatting changes. On the Windows version of Word, I was able to easily turn of tracking of formatting changes, however, on Word for Mac 2011, I have been unable to accomplish this.
On the Mac, under the Review tab, I can turn off visibility in the Tracking subsection by selecting the popup menu Show Markup and unchecking Formatting but formatting changes are still being tracked even when not visible. I also tried going to the Preferences... below Formatting and in the Track Changes dialog under Markup section setting Formatting: to (none), Color: to Auto, but I still get tracking. My recollection is that on the Windows version of word, this is where you would disable tracking of formatting changes.
How can I disable tracking of formatting changes in Word for Mac 2011?
gparyani4 Answers
For Word: Go to the 'Review' ribbon and click on the arrow section and select 'Change tracking options'. About 2/3rds of the way down, you'll see 'Formatting'. Just uncheck the 'Track Formatting' box.
For Mac: Go to 'Show Markup' on the review tab and uncheck 'Formatting'.
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- Go to Review Ribbon
- Click on the arrow to the right of Show Markup
- You will see the following list of options:
Comments
Insertions and Deletions
Formatting
Markup Area Highlight
Reviewers
- Uncheck 'Formatting' and all the formatting notations will be eliminated
I went to the 'customize tool bar' section (View --> toolbars--> Customize Toolbars and Menus), found an icon for 'Accept All Changes in Document' and dragged it to my toolbar (this function eluded me everywhere else). Presto! It worked! You STILL have to uncheck 'Markup' each time you enter the document, however. A royal pain.
On MAC, make sure that you are in the main body of the text, and not in the footnotes part. It wasn't working when I was in the footnote part (either in the track changes pop up menu or in the review ribbon pane under show mark up where it was greyed out). Once I switched to main body and followed the instructures here, the formatting track changes were gone, INCLUDING in the footnotes section (which is what i cared about).
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I use change tracking in Microsoft Word to collaborate with others while jointly editing a document, however, I am not interested in tracking formatting changes. On the Windows version of Word, I was able to easily turn of tracking of formatting changes, however, on Word for Mac 2011, I have been unable to accomplish this.
On the Mac, under the Review tab, I can turn off visibility in the Tracking subsection by selecting the popup menu Show Markup and unchecking Formatting but formatting changes are still being tracked even when not visible. I also tried going to the Preferences... below Formatting and in the Track Changes dialog under Markup section setting Formatting: to (none), Color: to Auto, but I still get tracking. My recollection is that on the Windows version of word, this is where you would disable tracking of formatting changes.
How can I disable tracking of formatting changes in Word for Mac 2011?
gparyani4 Answers
For Word: Go to the 'Review' ribbon and click on the arrow section and select 'Change tracking options'. About 2/3rds of the way down, you'll see 'Formatting'. Just uncheck the 'Track Formatting' box.
For Mac: Go to 'Show Markup' on the review tab and uncheck 'Formatting'.
- Go to Review Ribbon
- Click on the arrow to the right of Show Markup
- You will see the following list of options:
Comments
Insertions and Deletions
Formatting
Markup Area Highlight
Reviewers
- Uncheck 'Formatting' and all the formatting notations will be eliminated
I went to the 'customize tool bar' section (View --> toolbars--> Customize Toolbars and Menus), found an icon for 'Accept All Changes in Document' and dragged it to my toolbar (this function eluded me everywhere else). Presto! It worked! You STILL have to uncheck 'Markup' each time you enter the document, however. A royal pain.
On MAC, make sure that you are in the main body of the text, and not in the footnotes part. It wasn't working when I was in the footnote part (either in the track changes pop up menu or in the review ribbon pane under show mark up where it was greyed out). Once I switched to main body and followed the instructures here, the formatting track changes were gone, INCLUDING in the footnotes section (which is what i cared about).
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