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Effective Collaboration in Document Review: Comments, Tracking Changes, and Managing Reviewers

This guide outlines the essential practices for collaborating effectively on documents, focusing on adding comments, tracking changes, and managing reviewers. It defines collaboration and identifies appropriate scenarios for its use. The document reviews the different collaboration tools available in Microsoft Word's Review tab, including how to utilize the Reviewing Pane to track comments and changes made by different users. Learn how to make suggestions, ask questions within comments, and visualize changes with the Track Changes feature to enhance team productivity.

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Effective Collaboration in Document Review: Comments, Tracking Changes, and Managing Reviewers

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  1. Collaborating with Coworkers: Comments, Tracking Changes, Managing Reviewers 11/12/13

  2. Warm-up • What does it mean to collaborate? • When would collaboration be appropriate?

  3. Keyboarding Practice Use the hand out to practice some keyboarding drills, including the famous keyboarding sentence.

  4. Collaboration Options • Collaboration = The act of working together to achieve a common goal. • Word includes a variety of collaboration options found under the Review Tab.

  5. Adding Comments • Reviewing Pane: a panel either to the side or underneath a document that shows you all of the tracked changes and comments for a document • Comments: contained in a comment balloon in the reviewing pane, comments allow you to make suggestions, ask questions,…within a document. Comments will not print unless you select that option.

  6. Tracking Changes • When working with multiple people on the same document, it is important to be able to track not only the changes that are made, but who made them. • Track Changes using the Track Changes button in the Tracking group under the review tab. • Deleted items will appear with a line through them and inserted text will appear underlined. In both cases, the lines will be in the color assigned to that reviewer.

  7. Tracked changes and the Clipboard • With the Track Changes option on while pasting from the clipboard, the following will happen: • Each item you paste is inserted as a tracked change • If you cut and paste an item it will appear in a new color and double underlined to show it has been moved

  8. For today… • Complete the following assignments in order and submit them to the SkyDrive… • Including Comments • Tracking Changes • Working w/ Tracked Changes • Managing Reviewers

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