Reviewing, Commenting, and Tracking Changes in PowerPoint
December 4, 2015 / / Comments Off on Reviewing, Commenting, and Tracking Changes in PowerPoint
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Collaboration in Microsoft Office is a necessity in the modern day workplace. PowerPoint decks are especially collaborative documents that can require lots of editing over time in preparation for a board meeting, for instance. Once you have a presentation that many have collaborated on, another challenge arises: keeping track of the edits.
There’s a lot of opinions and contributions that can go into a 30+ slide presentation, and to make sure you account for the opinions that matter in a presentation, you can make comments, review comments, and track changes and revisions within a PowerPoint deck to make collaboration easier. See the video above and steps below to do each:
Make Comments
- Select the Insert tab.
- Click Comment.
- A sidebar will appear on the right where you can type out your comments.
Review Comments
- Select the Review tab.
- Click Show Comments.
- A sidebar will appear on the right where you can review the comments made in the presentation.
- Click Next or Previous to toggle between the comments made on different slides. You can also reply to the comments in this sidebar too.
Track Changes and Revisions
- Select the Review tab
- Click Compare
- Open the PowerPoint presentation version you want to compare your presentation to.
- The sidebar will appear and the differences between the presentations will be noted under Slide Changes or Presentation Changes.
- Click each change to review the what has been edited. To accept the change, click the check box. To ignore the change, don’t click the check box.