Tracking changes to your documents, Start tracking changes, Ge 339 – Nisus Writer Pro User Manual
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Polishing & Managing Documents
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Tracking Changes to Your Documents
There are three essential steps to tracking changes:
1. Turn on (and off) track changes, explained in “Start tracking changes” on page 339.
2. Examine Tracked Changes, explained in “View and review tracked changes” on page 341.
3. Accept or reject the changes, explained in “Accept or reject changes made to your document” on
page 346.
Using Track Changes Nisus Writer Pro can monitor the alterations made to any text. These
alterations can include:
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additions to the text (including footnotes and/or endnotes as well as text in them)
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deletions from the text
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alterations of particular words (such as spelling corrections)
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formatting of words and paragraphs (indicating the formatting change made)
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insertion of
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inline images
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tables
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cross-references (but not bookmarks)
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merge placeholders
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embedded hyperlinks (showing the URL in the Tracked Changes pane)
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page, column and section breaks
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all kinds of automatic text
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marking for indexing (and to which index, if more than one exists) and table of contents (as well
as to which table of contents, if more than one exists, and its level)
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text in text or callout boxes
Tracking changes ignores:
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page setup
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margins
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column modifications
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insertion and modification of floating shapes
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headers and/or footers
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watermarks
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Nisus Writer Pro does not monitor any changes to floating shapes, or modifications to inline
images (other than to note that they have been added to your document).
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Nisus Writer Pro saves the state of whether or not Track Changes is on or off. When a
document is opened by another user after having been saved with Track Changes on and
begins to edit it, all those changes are tracked, unless the other user turns off Track Changes
first.
Had she been alive to enjoy the use of a personal computer
would have likely written a
near-final draft of her novel
and then sent it off to Jarrold Publishing which would
have one of its editors
with track changes turned on. The following instructions use
her fabricated, fictional experience as an example.
Start tracking changes
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Choose (check, turn on) the menu command Tools > Track Changes > Track Changes, or
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Click the Track Changes button on the Tool bar.
The Track Changes button changes its state from inactive to active as illustrated in Figure 372
and the Tracked Changes pane opens beside your document.
Figure 372
The Track Changes button on the Toolbar inactive, activated, active and indicating the number of changes tracked, then
inactive and indicating the number of changes tracked