- Track Changes in Google Docs
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it, and two new options appear: Suggesting and Viewing.
In Suggesting mode, your changes are tracked in the document. As you and
your collaborators work, Google Docs saves all new material and changes as
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for each user, to make them easy to identify. You can accept suggestions or
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Use the Commenting Tool for Questions and Discussions
Writers and editors often learn the hard way that putting comments inline with
the material being produced means it can be accidentally published with the
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to discuss the content without putting unnecessary words onto the page. You’ll
be thankful you used it.
Use @ Messaging
You can call someone’s attention to an edit or
a comment by using @ messaging—or maybe I
should say + messaging, since Google uses a
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if you type @ instead of +, Google changes it
for you.