Track Changes
Every edit arrives as a suggestion you accept or reject, marked in the document, with who made it and when attached, and the marks survive export to Word.
Track changes records every edit as a visible, reviewable suggestion instead of a silent replacement, the same idea Word made famous, applied to a document where an AI is one of the editors. The scariest sentence in AI writing is the one you did not notice changing, and track changes exists so that sentence cannot happen. Every edit, whether it came from the AI, a collaborator, or you at 1am, waits for your judgment.
With track changes on, edits appear as marked insertions and deletions rather than committed text. The original stays readable beside the proposed change, so you know exactly what would change before anything is final. It is the difference between reviewing a diff and hunting for what moved.
Review one at a time or clear the board:
- Accept commits the change into the document.
- Reject discards it and keeps your original.
- Accept all or reject all clears the whole set in one move once you have read through.
The track-changes panel walks you change by change, and the all-at-once buttons are there for the day the edits are obviously right. Clearing the marks from a finished document is the same move: accept all, and the suggestions become clean text.
Some sessions are careful and some are fast. Auto-accept mode commits changes as they land instead of holding them for review, which suits early drafting where speed beats scrutiny. Flip it off when the draft starts to matter and every edit goes back to waiting for your yes.
Each tracked change knows who made it and when. A glance tells you whether an edit came from you, a collaborator, or an AI suggestion, and that provenance is often the deciding vote on whether to keep it. It travels with the change until you accept or reject.
Export to Word and the track-change marks come along. Your reviewer opens the file and finds the changes waiting in their own Review tab, so handing off to someone who lives in Word costs you nothing. See Import and Export for the full format list.