Seminary Computing Services

Using your word processor's tools for tracking, displaying, and managing changes is a great way to suggest and handle specific changes to the text of a document. Here's how to turn on change tracking in Microsoft Word 2000 (in OpenOffice.org, this is called 'recording changes', but the process is similar):

Adding "comments" to a documents is a excellent way to share feedback on a document electronically, without modifying its substance. A comment can be inserted into a document at any point, or attached to a specific portion of the text. Here's how to insert a comment in Microsoft Word 2000 (OpenOffice.org calls this a 'note', but the process is essentially the same):