To stop locking, in the Track Changes list, click Lock Tracking again. Word prompts you to type the password with that you have locked Track Changes. After you type your password and click OK, Track Changes is still turned on, but you can turn it off, accept and reject changes. How to keep someone from turning off Track Changes in a Word document. By Susan Harkins in Microsoft Office, in Software on November 6, 2007, 12:24 AM PST Word's Track Changes feature allows you. Tracking changes in complex documents is a fragile function of Microsoft Word and, even in the best case, often causes confusion and lost time chasing phantom problems. And in the worst case, track changes can cause document corruption, which culminates in the loss of data.
Turn on change tracking
On the Review tab, in the Tracking group, click the Track Changes image.
To add a track changes indicator to the status bar, right-click the status bar and click Track Changes. Click the Track Changes indicator on the status bar to turn Track Changes on or off.
Note If the Track Changes command is unavailable, you might have to turn off document protection. On the Review tab, in the Protect group, click Restrict Editing, and then click Stop Protection at the bottom of the Protect Document task pane. (You might need to know the document password.)
Turn off change tracking
When you turn off change tracking, you can revise the document without marking what has changed. Turning off the Track Changes feature does not remove any changes that have already been tracked.
Important To remove tracked changes, use the Accept and Reject commands on the Review tab in the Changes group.
Microsoft Word Disable Track Changes
On the Review tab, in the Tracking group, click the Track Changes image.
To add a track changes indicator to the status bar, right-click the status bar and click Track Changes. Click the Track Changes indicator on the status bar to turn track changes on or off.