DOCX Accept Track Changes

Drop a reviewed .docx hereor click to browse. Several files at once work too.

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Your original file is left as it is

Mode

Applies to every tracked change in every file

Also remove commentsOff: comments stay in the downloaded copy

All or nothing: every tracked change is accepted, or every one is rejected. This page does not step through changes one by one or compare two versions. Author and company properties are left alone; DOCX Metadata Remover clears those. Your document is read and rebuilt in this tab and is not uploaded.

How to accept or reject all tracked changes in a .docx

Drop the reviewed .docx

Drag one or more Word files onto the drop area, or click to choose them. Each file is read at once and its tracked changes are counted.
Check the list

The counts show insertions, deletions, moves, formatting changes and comments. The list below shows each change with its author, date and the text it applies to.
Choose Accept or Reject

Accept all keeps what the reviewers did. Reject all puts the document back as it was before review. Turn on Also remove comments if the comments should go too.
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The file is named after the original, so contract.docx becomes contract-accepted.docx or contract-rejected.docx. With several files, Download all gives a .zip with a summary.txt of the counts.

Common uses

Sending a contract after negotiation

A redlined agreement still holds every rejected clause and the name of whoever proposed it. Accepting all changes leaves only the agreed wording in the file.

Publishing a reviewed report or brief

Before a document goes to a client or onto a website, resolving the review history means the earlier drafts are not inside the file.

Undoing a review round

Reject all returns the document to its state before the tracked edits, which is useful when a round of changes is abandoned.

Cleaning a folder of files

Drop several documents at once and download them together as a .zip, with one line per file in summary.txt saying what was resolved.

Why accept tracked changes before you send a Word file?

A Word document that has been through review carries its history inside it. Every insertion and deletion is stored in the file as markup with the reviewer's name and a timestamp, and the No Markup view in Word only hides it: the deleted wording, the earlier figure and the name of whoever changed it are all still in the .docx you attach. Clearing that means opening the file in Word, going to Review, choosing Accept All Changes, and doing it again for every file. This page does the same job in the tab: drop the file, check what is in it, and download a copy where the changes are resolved into ordinary text.

DOCX Accept Track Changes resolves the review history in a Word document. A .docx is a zip, and Word stores tracked changes inside it as markup: w:ins around inserted text, w:del around deleted text, w:moveFrom and w:moveTo around the two ends of a moved passage, and w:rPrChange or w:pPrChange holding the formatting that was there before. Each one carries the reviewer's name and the date. This page opens the package in your browser, rewrites those parts and gives you the document back.

Accept keeps what the reviewers did: inserted text stays, deleted text goes, moved text stays at its new place and the current formatting stays. Reject undoes it: inserted text goes, deleted text comes back as ordinary text, moved text returns to where it was and the old formatting is restored. Inserted or deleted paragraph breaks, table rows and table cells are resolved the same way, and the body, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, styles and numbering are all covered.

Before anything is written, the page counts the changes and lists them with their author, date and text, so you can see what you are about to accept or reject. The list downloads as CSV. Comments stay unless you turn on Also remove comments, which removes the comment parts, the markers in the text and the reviewer list that goes with them.

Two limits, stated plainly. It is all or nothing: you cannot accept some changes and reject others here. And the file's properties (author, company, template) are left alone, because that is a separate job that DOCX Metadata Remover does.

How it compares

The usual route is Word itself: Review, then Accept All Changes, or Reject All Changes. It is reliable and it is one file at a time, and it needs a copy of Word. Choosing No Markup instead only hides the changes on screen and leaves them in the file.

Word's Document Inspector can also report revisions, but it is a separate step that is easy to skip, and it does not work on a machine without Word.

Upload-based cleaners do the same rewrite on a server. A document that has been through review is often a contract, a manuscript or an internal report, which is exactly the kind of file you should not hand to a website. Here the rewrite happens in the tab.

It sits next to the other tools that look inside a .docx: DOCX Metadata Remover clears the author and company properties, DOCX Comments Extractor exports the comments as a table, and DOCX to Markdown and DOCX to HTML convert the body text.

Tips

Resolving changes is different from hiding them. Word's No Markup view only changes what you see; this page removes the revision markup from the file.
Comments are not tracked changes. They stay unless you turn on Also remove comments, so you can export them first with DOCX Comments Extractor.
The author, company and template stored in the file's properties are not changed here. Run DOCX Metadata Remover on the result to clear those.
If the counts show 0, the file has no tracked changes. The download still works and is the same document, rebuilt.
A password-protected document cannot be read in the browser. Remove the password in Word, save, and drop the new copy.
Accepting changes does not switch Track Changes off. If the file still has it on, the page says so; switch it off in Word under Review.

Frequently asked questions

What does Accept all tracked changes do?

It makes every tracked change permanent and removes the markup. Inserted text becomes ordinary text, deleted text is removed, moved text stays at its new place, and the current formatting is kept. The downloaded file has no w:ins, w:del or formatting-change markup left in it.

What does Reject all tracked changes do?

It undoes every tracked change. Inserted text is removed, deleted text comes back as ordinary text, moved text returns to its original place, and the formatting stored before each change is restored. The result is the document as it was before the tracked edits, with no revision markup left.

Is my document uploaded?

No. The .docx is opened in your browser, rewritten there and handed back as a download. Nothing is sent to a server; you can confirm it in the network tab of your browser's developer tools.

Is this the same as Word's No Markup view?

No. No Markup only changes what Word shows on screen; the insertions, deletions and reviewer names are still stored in the file. This page removes that markup from the file itself, so the history is gone rather than hidden.

Does it remove comments too?

Only if you turn on Also remove comments. It is off by default, so the comments survive and you can export them first with DOCX Comments Extractor. When it is on, the comment parts, their markers in the text and the reviewer list that goes with them are removed.

Does it remove the author and company from the file?

No. The properties Word keeps about who made the file (author, last modified by, company, template) are left as they are. DOCX Metadata Remover is the tool for those, and you can run it on the downloaded file.

Which kinds of tracked changes are handled?

Inserted and deleted text, moved text, formatting changes to text, paragraphs, sections and tables, inserted and deleted paragraph breaks, and inserted and deleted table rows and cells. They are resolved in the body, headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes and comments, and in the styles and numbering parts.

Can I accept some changes and reject others?

No. The page applies one choice to every change in the file. To decide change by change, use Review in Word. The list on this page shows what each change is, which helps you decide whether all or nothing is right for the file.

What if the document has no tracked changes?

The counts show 0 and the download still works. It is the same document, rebuilt, so you can run a folder of files through without picking out the ones that were never reviewed.

Can it open a password-protected or .doc file?

No. A password-protected .docx is encrypted, and an old .doc is a different binary format, so both are refused with a message instead of a damaged result. Remove the password or save the file as .docx in Word, then drop it again.