Save the file to save your newly pasted text. Pro Tip: If the comments and Track Changes edits don’t appear with the copied text, select the menu arrow in the Paste Options pop-up menu and ensure that the first icon in the drop-down menu, Keep Source Formatting, is selected. Now, assuming you couldn’t find notepad, did not have Microsoft Word installed in your laptop, and in dire need of removing formatting from the copied text. Copying it here will remove the formatting for the copied text. The text with comments and Track Changes edits should now appear in the second file. Paste your text here first, and then in the document-making program, you are using. (Alternately, you can press Ctrl + V on your keyboard or right-click where your cursor is placed and then select Paste from the pop-up menu.) Figure 6. Select Paste in the Clipboard group in the ribbon. Place your cursor where you want to paste the copied text in the second file.ġ2. Select the Home tab in the ribbon of the second file (see figure 3).ġ1. Turn off Track Changes in the ribbon of the second file (see figure 2).ġ0. Select the Review tab in the second file (see figure 1).ĩ.
Open the second file that should receive the copied text.Ĩ. (Alternately, you can press Ctrl + C on your keyboard or right-click on the selected text and then select Copy from the pop-up menu.) Figure 5. Select Copy in the Clipboard group in the ribbon. Text with comment and Track Changes selectedĦ. ( Pro Tip: Select Ctrl + A on your keyboard if you want to select the entire document.) Figure 4. Note that Track Changes is turned on when the icon’s background is darker than the rest of the ribbon and turned off when the icon’s background is the same color as the rest of the ribbon.Ĥ.
Turn off Track Changes in the Tracking group. Open the file that contains the text you want to copy.Ģ.
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How to Copy Text with Comments and Track Changes in Word from One File to Anotherġ.