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10-13-2019, 05:23 PM

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Windows 10 Track Changes turned on by accident in Word

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Originally Posted by Burt

Occasionally I open a Word document that I've been editing and see a red bar on the left indicating that Track Changes has been enabled. I don't ever want it enabled. How does this keep happening accidentally? Is there some hot key that I'm hitting?

Perhaps, by mistake, you pressed Ctrl+Shift+E (which enabled Track Changes)? It is a toggle, so you can press the same key combination again to turn off the tracking.

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