I cannot see any comments
Step 1: Go to the Review tab and select ‘All Markup’ in the drop down menu (Word 2019).
Step 2: Click on ‘Show markup’ below ‘All Markup’ and tick ‘Comments’ (Word 2019).
Step 1: Go to the Review tab and select ‘All Markup’ in the drop down menu (Word 2019).
Step 2: Click on ‘Show markup’ below ‘All Markup’ and tick ‘Comments’ (Word 2019).
When Word crashes or runs very slowly, this could be caused by the Reviewing Pane. Due to the number of changes and comments, there is a lot of content in the Revision Pane, which causes Word to run slowly and possibly crash.
The Reviewing Pane is the Pane on the left side of your screen that you can extend when you go to the Review tab.
Close this Reviewing Pane while you keep on working on your document.
If this does not solve your problem, please contact Scribbr via the chat or send an e-mail to [email protected].
Don’t panic! Sometimes you cannot see the changes straight away when you open the Word document, even though the changes of the editor are in there.
Step 1: Go to the ‘Review’ tab and select ‘All Markup’ in the drop down menu (Word 2019).
Step 2: Click on ‘Show markup’ below ‘All Markup’ (Word 2019) and make sure all options are ticked.
This red line is there because there are still changes in the document that need to be accepted (which can be minor changes like double spaces or a wrongly placed comma).
Step 1: Go to the Review tab and click on ‘Accept’ (Word 2019).
Step 2: Click on ‘Accept all changes and Stop Tracking’.
You might come across redundant changes, where a word or punctuation mark is replaced by the same word or punctuation mark.
Changes like these occur during the routine editing process, so there’s no cause for concern. There are two common reasons you might see such changes:
If you see redundant changes in your text, you can simply accept or reject them.
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