About marking up documents

Marking up documents allows you to indicate desired text changes that can be accepted or rejected or commented by others when editing a document collaboratively.

The Markup tool appears at Comment > Markup > Active Markup.


Active Markup icon

This multi-purpose tool lets you indicate places where you suggest text should be deleted, inserted or replaced. Its drop down list offers the following commands:

  • Text Markup Tool – (Select this to begin.)

  • Insert Text at Cursor

  • Replace Selected Text

  • Add Note to Selected Text

  • Highlight

  • Underline

  • Cross-out

Marking up can be paused or terminated by clicking the Hand tool.

See Markup Tools for details and illustrations of the display results.