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I made some changes to a document before remembering to enable change tracking. Is there a way I can select some text and forcibly tell MSWord "mark this as changed"?

Takit Isy
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Mr. Boy
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    Not really. You can add comments to it. Or you can delete it, enable change tracking and paste it back, so it'll be marked as new. – Máté Juhász Nov 24 '16 at 14:30
  • Or if there are many changes you can compare original version (if you have it) with new version using Compare button on a Review tab (in Word 2010) - and selecting that you want to show changes in revised document. Remember to make a backup first. – endrju Nov 25 '16 at 19:29

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As there is no command to do that, here is what I usually do to mark some text as “changed”, without removing the tracking:

  • Select all the text you want to mark,
  • Cut it,
  • Accept the removal,
  • Paste it back.

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Here is a GIF (with some french language inside the contextual menu, but it's easy to understand!) :

Mark as modified

I hope it helps.

Takit Isy
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I wasnt happy with this answer - but stumbled by accident on another way.

Simply mark the block you want to put a revision mark next to - then go to the FONTS and change the font color and change it back.

Works a treat in Word 2016

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