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Tracking changes

Tracking changes - Microsoft Excel Tutorial

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Tracking changes

We're looking at the worksheet called RecordedChanges and it's in the workbook called TrackingChanges. And we're about to setup a feature where we're going to keep track of all the changes we make in this workbook for an indefinite period. The feature begins on the REVIEW tab with the choice Track Changes, and in the description there it tells us that if you're working with others to make revisions or give feedback, it's particularly useful. But that's not saying that that's the only case where we might use this. What if you were the only user of this workbook and you simply want to keep track of the changes that you're going to make perhaps over the next few weeks, something like that. When we turn on Track Changes the only choice we have his Highlight Changes. This brings up the highlight changes dialog box, click the box for Track changes while editing. The sentence that follows this might be a little confusing; This also shares your workbook. Does that means that others are using…

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