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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...
jimbotron5000
Feb 21, 2024Brass Contributor
Sorry, but this is just a terrible feature. There are already two ways to accept/reject changes (Ribbon and right-click). Having annoying popups appear while you're editing a document is disruptive and destroys productivity. It makes it impossible to read the document because the cards cover the document content. It also makes it easy to accidentally accept or reject a change.
Why does Microsoft spend time and money developing features that no one asked for and that make the product worse? Also, why doesn't Microsoft allow us to turn these "features" off? It seems that all of the new "features" are just gimmicks for beginner users who don't know how to do things already, and they trip up the advanced users who are very efficient and proficient with Word. Popups, "tool tips", "cards", "mouseovers" and "hover effects" are terrible UX for everyone. They are disruptive and cover the document content. We should be able to disable them all if we want.