There’s a lot of stuff you can tweak and customize with this version of Microsoft Word, so while you’re looking at your Preferences, make sure it’s all configured as you desire too. Simply uncheck these two checkboxes, click “OK” to save the changes, and your edits will be in the classic style: Open it up and you get all sorts of pretty little icons, including the one we seek:Ĭlick on “Track Changes” and about 2/3 of the way down you’ll see a section labeled “Balloons”: To change it, go to “Preferences…”, which you can find under the “Word” menu: To start out, here’s what the newer, modern revision tracking looks like in Microsoft Word for Mac: This is a Microsoft product, however, so it should be no surprise that there’s a way to tweak and customize it to what you prefer rather than just being stuck with the newest, fancy way to show revisions and tweaks to your document. Find and replace remaining hard returns using the More > Special from the Find and Replace dialog box.

If you want, you can select all text in an area and apply the normal style to it. As needed, replace multiple hard returns you want to keep with a placeholder. The Clear Formatting button or command in the Styles Pane returns the text to the normal format. A red line through a word to show it was deleted, the word in blue to show it was added, it was all easy and made sense. The basic process to remove hard returns or paragraph marks as detailed below is: Save the original document with a new name. As someone who works with a lot of different documents, I’m with you in preferring the “old style” revision display in Microsoft Word for Mac.

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