. To be sure all changes are visible, click in the review toolbar, then set the change tracking view to Markup. Do any of the following:. For a specific change: Move the pointer over the marked text, then click Accept or Reject. In the Comments & Changes sidebar, you can accept or reject a change. For all changes in a range of text: Select the text, then click Accept or Reject in the review toolbar. All tracked changes within the range are accepted or rejected at once.
For all text in the document: Click in the review toolbar, then choose Accept All Changes or Reject All Changes. If you reject all changes, the text reverts to the state of the document before you started tracking. You can review and edit changes in the Comments & Changes sidebar on the left side of the Pages window.
The menus have evidently changed from the previous version of Word for Mac because I can't find anything about inspecting the document or removing personal info. There used to be a way (I thought) to change it to 'author'. On the Review tab, in the Comments section, click Next to select a comment. On the Review tab, click Delete. To delete all comments at once, click the arrow next to Delete, and then click Delete All Comments in Document.
To open the Comments & Changes sidebar, click on the left side of the review toolbar. Click the button again to close the sidebar.
You can also click in the, then choose Show Comments & Changes Pane. To change what’s shown in the sidebar, click View Options at the top of the sidebar to sort by page or date, filter changes by author, and hide comments or hide changes. If you choose Sort by Document from the View Options menu, the sidebar scrolls as you scroll the document. If you filter changes by author so that your changes aren’t visible in the sidebar, then you make changes, your changes appear in the document but not in the sidebar. To make changes appear in the sidebar, change the filter to include your changes, or click Show All at the top of the sidebar. To see a specific comment or change, move your pointer over it in the document; the sidebar scrolls to show the content, and a line appears connecting the change with its corresponding entry in the sidebar. If you don’t see a line, make sure no sidebar item is selected.
To widen or narrow the sidebar, drag its right edge. To change the size of the text in the sidebar and in comments, choose Pages Preferences (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen), then click General at the top of the window. Click the Text Size pop-up menu, then choose a size.
This article tells you how to change the language of your document in Word 2007, 2010 or 2013. Why would I want to change the language of my Word document? The language that is set for your Word document sets the language in which the spelling and grammar checks work. If you are working, say, at a university that uses UK English, and you use a version of Word that’s set for US English, when you run a spell check (or if you ask Word to highlight errors as you go along), the spelling will default to American English. You will submit your document in the incorrect version of the language. This can really matter if you’re instructed to use one particular version, and will matter more as you move into submitting articles for journals (which may specify either version of English) or working for a company that uses British or American spelling as standard. If you’re working in the field of, or even just, as I used to, writing documents for the US and UK markets simultaneously, making sure that the language set for your document matches the language you’re working in means that you can run final checks and make sure that you’re using the appropriate spelling.
If your document has come from another country which uses a language other than English, for example if you’re working on a document prepared by a translator working out of their own language, you really need to change the language to English before you start editing it, or when you run a final spell check, every word will be highlighted and confusion will ensue. So it’s important to make sure that the language of your document matches the language in which you wish to work. I receive many documents to proofread which are set for US English but are for a student at a UK university – a quick set of actions is all that it takes, but I fear that students will be penalised if they use the inappropriate spellings for the context. How do I view and change the language in my document? In Word, the language that is set for your document should appear in the lower status bar of your document: From here, you can easily change the language of selected text or the whole document (see below).
But first we’ll look at how to add this useful display if it’s not showing. How do I make the language display on my status bar? If the language isn’t showing on your status bar and you want to see it there, right-click anywhere on the lower status bar.
A menu should appear with lots of options to tick. Any item that is ticked will appear on the status bar – this is also useful if you want to view your word count there.
Click on Language or tick the tick-box next to it, and your language will appear for ever more in the bottom status bar. This works exactly the same for Word 2007, 2010 and 2013. How do I change the language using the status bar display? First you need to highlight the text whose language you want to change. You might want to highlight parts of the document (for example if it’s a dual translation in two languages and you just want to set one to UK English, or it’s a localisation and you just want to change one column of a two-column original and target language table), keeping the control key pressed down if you want to select several individual blocks of text. If you want to change the language of the whole document, go to the Home tab and choose Select to the very right of the tab, then Select All: (or you might press the Select All button on your Quick Access Toolbar if you’ve added it there (marked with an arrow on the screenshot above) – see my article on if you need to know how to do that).
Once you’ve highlighted the text for which you want to set the language, click on the language display in the bottom status bar and choose your language: Note: Do not check spelling or grammar has a blue square next to it. Click in this square twice so that first a tick, then nothing, appears in the square. Now click on OK. Your language will have changed to the language you selected. This works exactly the same for Word 2007, 2010 and 2013. How do I change the language using the menus in the ribbon?
If you don’t choose to display the language in the lower status bar, you can access it via the menus in the ribbon at the top of the screen instead. This works slightly differently in Word 2007, 2010 and 2013, so I’ll show you screenshots of all three. Your site came up in a Google search while I was looking for a fix. My problem was that the language did NOT display in the status bar of my new Word 2013 installation, despite that option being ticked.
You don’t cover that situation, so I thought I’d share the solution since it affects many people. The problem comes up if you only have one language set in your proofing options, in Word 2013 these are in: Word Options Language Choose editing languages I saw that I only had UK English selected. I added US English, which is the easiest option, because the proofing tools are already there so you don’t need to go back to your installation package to retrieve anything additional. Once I had both these languages listed, the problem was solved. The status bar now displays the language of any text written in any language.
Hi Liz, Personally, I would incorporate the information into the existing post t, but obviously it’s your blog and your choice. BTW, the need to have at least two proofing languages selected in order for language to display also applies to Word 2010 and 2007 as far as I am aware, but I don’t know about earlier versions. If you want to give me a link and would prefer my business web site, it’s tehuti.co.uk although it only has minimal content on it at present. After moving to a WordPress format, I didn’t have time to do anything. I was, however, forced to put up something last year to let people know about my CV being stolen.
That’s really as far as it has got, apart from an “about” page but funnily I get enquiries through the contact form there from time to time. Krys On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:40 PM, LibroEditing proofreading, editing, writing Like. Your tips on how to change the default language does not apply to ‘Word for Mac. It doesn’t respond to or give me any Menu options when I click on the lower bar.
I set the default language to English AUS and it keeps changing back to English US as soon as I’ve written a few words. I have to select the document, go into Tools, Language, and change it. It offers me a default language there, but that’s of no use, it keeps changing it to US.
I’m a translator, it’s driving me crazy. May Brit Like.