Track Changes
Review edits with track changes in the Dock Editor. Accept or reject changes individually or all at once, use auto-accept mode, and see who made each change and when.
Track changes records edits as suggestions you can review instead of changes that happen silently. Each edit is marked in the document, and you decide whether to keep it. It is how you keep control when AI, a collaborator, or your earlier self has touched the draft.
When track changes is on, edits show up as marked insertions and deletions rather than committed text. The original stays visible alongside the proposed change, so you can read exactly what would change before anything is final.
You review changes one at a time or in bulk:
- Accept a change to commit it into the document.
- Reject a change to discard it and keep the original.
- Accept all or reject all to clear the whole set in one move once you have reviewed.
Work through the changes in the track-changes panel, deciding each one, or clear them all at once when you are confident.
When you do not need to review every edit, auto-accept mode commits changes as they are made rather than holding them for review. Turn it on for fast drafting where you trust the edits, and turn it off when you want to inspect each one. The choice is yours per the way you are working.
Each tracked change carries metadata: who made it and when. That tells you at a glance whether a change came from you, from a collaborator, or from an AI suggestion, which matters when you are deciding what to keep. The provenance travels with the change until you accept or reject it.
When you export a document to Word, its track-change marks come with it. A reviewer opens the file and sees the changes in their own Review tab, so the handoff to someone working in Word stays intact. See Import and Export for export formats.