If you open the dialog box by clicking on the group arrow
in the bottom right corner of the ribbon tab Review | group Changes, you can make various settings for the "Track Changes" function.
The following options are available here:
Dialog box "Track changes options"
Note: These settings are global rather than document-specific.
▪Show changes
| This option enables/disables Show changes. If this option is enabled, changes are indicated. If it is disabled, the document appears as if all changes have been accepted. |
This button corresponds to the icon  on the ribbon tab Review | group Changes. The options in the dropdown menu of this icon are related to the settings in the dialog box "Track changes options" as follows: |
| Simple view: "Show changes" enabled; Deleted text and Changed formatting are displayed in the comments pane next to the document. |
| Advanced view: "Show changes" enabled; Deleted text and Changed formatting are only displayed in the document text. |
| Final view: "Show changes" disabled; the document is displayed as if all changes have been accepted. |
▪Show tooltips
| If this option is enabled, information about a change is automatically displayed on the screen when you hover over it (author, date and type of change). |
▪Inserted text, Deleted text, Changed formatting, etc.
| In the lower part of the dialog box, you can specify exactly how tracked changes should be indicated in the document: How would you like changes to be displayed in the document and in what color should such changes be highlighted? |
| Deleted text and Changed formatting are displayed by default in the comments pane to the right of the document, while Inserted text is underlined in the document text itself. |
| If you use the default setting Author for a color, a different color will be selected automatically for each user who edits the document. If the first user makes changes, they appear in red. If another user then opens the document and makes additional changes, they appear in blue, etc. |
Note: For this to work correctly, all users who edit the document must have specified their name in the TextMaker settings.
To enter your name, choose the ribbon command File | Options 
, switch to the General tab and enter your name using the User info button.
| The setting Edited lines causes a vertical line to appear in the page margin next to each change to further indicate that a change has been made at that point. |
Additional settings in the common dialog box for comments/changes
Note: These settings are not global but are related to the respective document.
The comments pane is an area in the right margin of the page where not only comments but also changes can be clearly displayed.
For this purpose, the option In the comments pane must be set for the change actions Deleted text and/or Changed formatting (see above). The change action Inserted Text is only displayed in the document text itself and never in the comments pane.
Tip: Select the entry Simple view under the ribbon command Review | group Changes | Show . The options for change actions are then automatically set to appear in the comments pane.
If you want to customize the width and position of the comments pane, click on the group arrow on the ribbon Review | group Comments to open the common dialog box for comments and changes.
Here, you can set the following options in the "Comments pane" section:
▪Width
| This option allows you to change the width of the comments pane. |
▪Position
| This option lets you change the position of the comments pane: in the right/left margin (or outside/inside for documents in book layout, i.e., with opposite pages). |
▪Show all lines connecting to text
| Connecting lines between the display window for the change in the page margin and the corresponding text clearly indicate to which text section the change refers. For clarity purposes, only the line of the currently selected change is displayed by default (click on the display window of the change in the page margin). |
| If you still want to display all connecting lines, enable this option. |
Note: You set the above options in the "Comments pane" section here in the same way as for the Comments function, as tracked changes and comments are displayed together in the comments pane. For more information, see also Using comments).
In the "Changes" section of the dialog box, the following options are available:
▪Track changes
| This option enables/disables the tracking of changes. |
This button corresponds to the icon  on the ribbon tab Review | group Changes. |
▪Print changes
| If you enable this option, tracked changes will also be indicated in the printout instead of just on the screen. If it is disabled, the document will be printed as if all changes had been accepted. |
▪Options
| This button will take you directly to the dialog box "Track changes options" – see description at the top – where you can define the global (not document-specific) settings for track changes. |