You might come across redundant changes, where a word or punctuation mark is replaced by the same word or punctuation mark.
Changes like these occur during the routine editing process, so there’s no cause for concern. There are two common reasons you might see such changes:
Our editors work in the “simple markup” view, so they can ensure they don’t introduce errors during the editing process. However, this means that editors sometimes delete a word and then retype it, and Word’s track changes will count this as an edit.
This can also happen when editors use spell check or other advanced editing tools, which allow the editor to review multiple instances of a word at once. Tools like this enable us to deliver a consistent edit, but they sometimes result in “unnecessary” changes.
If you see redundant changes in your text, you can simply accept or reject them.
When Word crashes or runs very slowly, this could be caused by the Reviewing Pane. Due to the number of changes and comments, there is a lot of content in the Revision Pane, which causes Word to run slowly and possibly crash.
The Reviewing Pane is the Pane on the left side of your screen that you can extend when you go to the Review tab.
Close this Reviewing Pane while you keep on working on your document.
If this does not solve your problem, please contact Scribbr via the chat or send an e-mail to info@scribbr.com.
This red line is there because there are still changes in the document that need to be accepted (which can be minor changes like double spaces or a wrongly placed comma).
Step 1: Go to the Review tab and click on ‘Accept’ (Word 2019).
Step 2: Click on ‘Accept All Changes and Stop Tracking’.
