How To Do Track Changes In Word Online

Track changes in Word Online

Hither's an early on Christmas present from the Function 365 team… but only for some of you. I'chiliad not sure how they track who has been naughty or dainty and so I doubtable this might exist one of those features that is flighting to some Targeted Release users merely not others.

Yesterday while co-authoring a document with Jamie LaPorte, I noticed that inside Give-and-take Online (currently known as "Word on the web" — merely that doesn't really roll off the tongue) that I had the ability to enable the Track Changes feature. This is a characteristic that has been asked for past many users a LONG time!

The reality is that Word Online offers a far superior co-authoring experience due to the fact that everyone is working on the "alive" document, every bit opposed to the constant synchronisation that occurs when using the Word desktop app. However the inability to track changes has been a showstopper for many who rely on that feature.

Give-and-take Online has really had the power to track changes for quite some time, all the same as outlined in this support commodity: "Y'all can't run into tracked changes in Word for the spider web just they're still there."

Unfortunately this has offered trivial comfort to users as they however want to run into the rail changes effect as they work through it, otherwise they are somewhat flying blind.

What does it expect similar?

The showtime matter I noticed in the ribbon was the appearance of Track Changes:

Interestingly I appear to have a flake more control over what is tracked in Discussion Online:

Versus Word on the desktop (I apply dark style):

The stop consequence is similar to what you run across in Word on the desktop, where a strikethrough and colour is applied to text that has been inverse, and a vertical line appears for every line in the certificate where a alter has been made:

When volition it be in my tenant?

When I posted on Twitter to inquire if anyone else was enlightened of the Track Changes in Word Online availability, almost were not enlightened of it and some of those that checked could not meet information technology.

Searching around I found a post on the Give-and-take UserVoice site with commentary from a Microsoft product manager on October 2d 2019 stating that information technology'southward beingness worked on. Additionally I establish a post on the Office 365 UserVoice site that unfortunately did not take any response from Microsoft.

Likewise searching the Microsoft 365 Roadmap at that place does not announced to exist whatever reference to this functionality when searching for the term track changes, Give-and-take Online, or Word on the web. A search of the Bulletin Centre in the Microsoft 365 admin center also yielded no results.

So when will it exist in your tenant? I have no idea, but if yous practise run into information technology — enjoy the early on Christmas present!