Editing Tip: Always Read a Clean Copy After Tracking Changes

Sophie Michals
2 min readMay 17, 2021

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When you edit a document using Track Changes in Word or Suggesting mode in Google Docs, the pages can quickly become cluttered with strikethroughs, insertions, and comments. And although the ability to see what’s been changed can be useful, the tracking features can be distracting and make it easy to miss double words or missing words, errors introduced during editing, the list goes on.

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Sophie Michals

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