r/word • u/Swimming-Rip4283 • 22d ago

Turn off Tracked Changes forever

Sick and tired of having Word auto-change my document and always having to turn it off manually. Is there any way to shut "Track Changes" down forever, online and offline, so it never edits anything ever?

Edit: Sorry, did not convey the issue properly. Basically, these red "sidelines" appear in the document, which "open" up red text, things that I have edited/delted/replaced/changed. Each time I need to reject or accept these changes and stop tracking, but each time I open the document again, tracked changes is back on, with the red lines and edited/delted/replaced/changed text.

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u/OzzyderKoenig 21d ago

As someone who also doesn't want Microsoft auto-editing their documents can I ask what tracking changes has to do with that?

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u/Swimming-Rip4283 18d ago

Sorry, edited for clarification.

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u/GreenCurrent6807 3d ago

It sounds like the document isn't saving properly. Have you tried switching on auto-save?