Track Change Feature in PowerPoint

Track Changes is a feature that helps keep track of the revisions made to a document and is commonly used when a document passes through a review cycle. How to enable Track Change feature in PowerPoint? There is no track change feature in PowerPoint similar to that offered in Word or Excel. However, one can use the commenting feature to perform this task as explained below. This relates to Office 2003. For Office 2007 version click here.

• Open the slide in PowerPoint that you have to insert a comment or feedback
• Select Insert > Comment from the menu. This displays a ‘comment’ box as shown below

• Enter any comment or suggestion in the box.

• This ‘comment’ box can be moved around the slide
• Note that the initials of the reviewer is displayed in the comment box
• If another reviewer makes changes to that comment, that reviewers initials are displayed

Printing Comments

• To print slides including the comments, select File > Print from the menu

• Select ‘Print Comments and ink markup’ check box

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