Highlighting and track changes

	In a Word document, highlighting serves to draw attention to the text. This can be useful for emphasizing a point, tracking a document change (if you do not use the document tracking tool, descibed below), or simply to give a document some graphical pizzazz. Using the Highlight Tool To highlight text, enter the text and then click the arrow next to the Highlight Text button on the Formatting toolbar. Select a highlight color from the menu palette and then select the text to be highlighted. The highlight tool acts just like a highlighting marker!

	Tip: To hide highlights in a document without removing them (e.g., when printing a hardcopy), go to *Tools --- Options --- View* on the Menu bar and unselect the "Highlight" check box.

	Word has an editing feature called Track Changes. It functions differently in Word XP (shown below) than it does in Word 2000.
	Word XP Open the Word document to be edited. From the menu choose, Tools: then Track Changes. The Reviewing Toolbar will indicate that Track Changes is in use by the appearance of the Track Changes tool.
	In the sample paragraph below, notice how the changes are indicated by a different color. In addition, Word-XP places detailed information in "call-outs" on the right of the document:

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