> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.doconda.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What are tracked changes in Word

> Word's tracked changes mark each insertion and deletion with its author and date so it can be accepted or rejected.

**Tracked changes** is the Word feature that records every edit to a document as a revision: insertions and deletions
stay marked, with their author and date, until someone accepts or rejects them. In the [DOCX](/en/glossary/docx) file,
revisions are stored as their own XML elements (`w:ins`, `w:del`), not as colored text.

## Why it matters when generating documents with AI

* Whoever receives a document edited by AI can see exactly what changed and decide change by change.
* In contracts and legal documents, redlining with tracked changes is the usual way to negotiate a text.
* Faking changes with colors or strikethrough doesn't work: Word doesn't recognize them as revisions and they can't be
  accepted.
* When reading a document with pending changes, you have to decide whether to use the text with changes accepted or
  the original.

## With Doconda

When [editing](/en/guides/edit) a Word document you can ask for tracked changes: each change is marked under the name
"Doconda". You can also ask for pending changes to be accepted. It needs the `standard` or `best` level. When
[reading a file](/en/guides/extract), a Word document with tracked changes is converted with the changes accepted.

## Related

* [What are Word comments](/en/glossary/word-comments)
* [What is DOCX](/en/glossary/docx)
* [What is an AI agent](/en/glossary/ai-agent)


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