Can People See the Changes Made in Word Document?
I Drafted Something in a Word Document and Then Made Some Changes Before Emailing It. Can the Person Receiving the Document See or Roll Back to Previous Edits?...
I drafted something in a Word document and then made some changes before emailing it. Can the person receiving the document see or roll back to previous edits?
If they can, how can I prevent that?
6 Answers
It's not as straightforward as the initial revision of the answer of Guest suggests.
Can others see my edits?
I think there are a couple cases with Word files (tl;dr conclusion in parenthesis):
- Track changes disabled (✔: nobody can see your edit history)
- Track changes enabled (❗ people might see your edit history)
- Hosted online in Google Docs, OneDrive, Sharepoint, the cloud (❗ people might see your edit history)
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Track changes disabled
Track changes allows you to make changes, while the old text remains available.
You can check in the Review panel if Track Changes is on or off (here it's off):
In this case you can safely edit the document, save it, and send it as an attachment without anyone finding out what you've changed.
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