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evannfarmer
Microsoft
Jul 25, 2022Review tracked changes with new cards in Word
Hi, Office Insiders! Kimberley Chua from the Word team is here to let you know that we’re now bringing improvements to Word for Windows and Word for Mac: new Track Changes cards!
New Track Chan...
Sickofstupidchanges
Jul 18, 2023Copper Contributor
This is really another terrible change in a long line of them which makes Microsoft products significantly worse, more difficult to use and is genuinely mystifying. Whoever thought this was an improvement cannot possibly have used tracked changes regularly - it's difficult to see what anyone thought the benefit could possibly be - the disadvantages are obvious. As many many others have pointed out, it gets in the way, is obtrusive unhelpful and adds nothing. If these kind of 'features' are to be added why oh why would there not be an option to turn off. Microsoft regularly roll out downgrades then extol the virtues of how they are ruining the product. Those who use it regularly get annoyed and the developers are paid again to fix the problem they created, if we are lucky. There's an ever-growing list of recent downgrades rolled out - modern comments, tracked changes cards, stupid-sized attachment icons in outlook, left click spell check, stupid pop ups everywhere - there may be one or two people who though they were a good idea, fine but for the other 99% of people, why can't we turn them off?! It's clear those who dream up these ideas don't actually use the products (if they did, there's no way the downgrades would have been rolled out at all, let alone without an opt out). evannfarmer