I feel that the Reviewing Pane, when tracking changes, is one of the most under utilized features of Word 2007. The power lies in the fact that it acts as a hyperlink list to your changes, gives a count of changes in your document, and tells you what has changed for each revision.

The powerful Reviewing Pane can also be used to review changes in an iRedline result document as well.

Below is a list of the types of revisions you’ll see in the Reviewing Pane.

• Insertions – Revisions that are "new" content typed, pasted or moved to another location in the document (if Track Moves is unchecked in Change Tracking Options).
• Deletions – Revisions that are deleted content deleted, cut or moved to another location in the document.
• Moved (Deletion) – When tracking moves, these revisions are tracked as "moved from".  Only paragraphs and sentences can be marked as a move while editing the document.
• Moved Up (Insertion) – When tracking moves, these revisions are tracked as "moved to" when they are moved above Moved (move from).  Only paragraphs and sentences can be marked as a move while editing the document.
• Moved Down (Insertion) – When tracking moves, these revisions are tracked as "moved to" when they are moved below the Moved (move from).  Only paragraphs and sentences can be marked as a move while editing the document
• Formatting – This revision occurs when any "direct" formatting or style has been applied to the content.
• Style Definitions – When a style has been changed in the document it is marked in the Reviewing Pane, but it is not a revision you can navigate to.

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