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[Adobe InDesign CS5, Track Text Changes]
[Michael Ninness, Group Product Manager]
An exciting new feature for writers or editors
or multiple people who collaborate on a single InDesign document
is the ability now to track your text edits and changes.
What I have here is the Track Changes Panel available and open.
It's available under the window menu editorial submenu.
And what we're going to do is turn on the ability
to track our text changes in this InDesign document.
I'm going to go ahead and zoom up on this particular text frame
so we can actually read the text on screen,
and I'll go ahead and select inside that text frame.
In the Track Changes Panel you can actually enable
the ability to track changes in the current story.
You can also, from the fly out menu, track changes
or turn it on for all stories in the document.
Let's go ahead and turn it on for this particular story.
Now I'm going to go ahead and make a change.
I'm currently in the layout view
and there's a text change here that I'm going to make.
"We were here not to tour the subway station."
I'm just going to change those around to say,
"We were not here."
And it doesn't look like anything's happened.
In the layout view we do not display these track changes highlighting,
but if I open up the story editor under the edit menu,
Edit In Story Editor or command Y--control Y,
you can see the changes that have been made
in the story have been tracked.
Edits or new text were added and highlighted,
deletions are highlighted and have been strikened through, as well,
and if you want to go ahead and accept or reject these,
you can simply right-click on the actual change itself
and say 'Accept Change' or Reject Change'.
And then you also have the ability to accept and automatically go to
the next change in the story there.
So I'm going to go ahead and accept that change and
accept this change, as well.
And you can see, once those changes have been accepted,
the highlighting goes away.
So, great new feature for keeping track of the changes you make to your text
available right now directly inside InDesign.
[Adobe]
