Track Changes

Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?

An Arab Israeli man, back in Jerusalem to see his estranged father, narrates “a novel about just how sad, fractured and tricky cultural identity can get” (Seattle Times). Having emigrated to America years before, a nameless memoirist now residing in Illinois receives word that his estranged father, whom he has not spoken to in fourteen years, is dying. Leaving his wife and their three children, he returns to Jerusalem and to his hometown of Tira in Palestine to be by his family’s side. But few are happy to see him back and, geographically and emotionally displaced, he feels more alienated from his life than ever. Sitting by his father’s hospital bed, the memoirist begins to remember long-buried traumas, the root causes of his fallout with his family, the catalyst for his marriage and its recent dissolution, and his strained relationships with his children—all of which is strangely linked to a short story he published years ago about a young girl named Palestine. As he plunges deeper into his memory and recounts the history of his land and his love, the lines between truth and lies, fact and fiction become increasingly blurred. Hailed as “an unusually gifted storyteller with exceptional insight” (Jewish Tribune), Bernstein Award–winning writer Sayed Kashua presents a masterful novel about the stories Palestinians and Israelis tell themselves about their lives and their histories.

Track changes is a great tool for working collaboratively in Word and almost essential for identifying and discussing changes to a document in a group setting. But in order to use it effectively, you have to understand it. And that's what this guide will do for you. The Easy Word Essentials series of titles are meant to cover one specific topic of interest to users who know the basics of how to navigate Word and are drawn from the Word Essentials series which consists of Word for Beginners and Intermediate Word.

Writing in the digital age has been as messy as the inky rags in Gutenberg’s shop or the molten lead of a Linotype machine. Matthew Kirschenbaum examines how creative authorship came to coexist with the computer revolution. Who were the early adopters, and what made others anxious? Was word processing just a better typewriter, or something more?

If you’re going to collaborate with others on a document in Microsoft Word then it’s essential to understand how to use Track Changes. This document covers not only track changes but comments and how to use document compare to see what edits have been made between two versions of a document. * * * The Easy Word Essentials 2019 series of titles are for users familiar with the basics of Word who want to focus on one specific topic such as text formatting, paragraph formatting, or track changes. The content of each title is extracted from either Word 2019 Beginner or Word 2019 Intermediate. These books are written using Word 2019 and assume that a user is working in that program. If you are using an older version of Word, the Easy Word Essentials series may be a better choice since it was written using Word 2013 and for a more general audience of Word users.

This book is part of the Easy Word 365 Essentials series of titles. These are targeted titles that are excerpted from the main Word 365 Essentials series and are focused on one specific topic. If you want a more general introduction to Word, then you should check out the Word 365 Essentials titles instead. In this case, Intermediate Word 365 which covers not only track changes but styles, breaks, multilevel lists, tables, and more. But if all you want to learn is how to use track changes in Word, then this is the book for you.

Five Australian authors take the personal and intimate craft of memoir and turn it over to the cut-and-paste transformation of remix culture, combined with a hint of old-fashioned parlour games. Edited by Simon Groth, Lost in Track Changes follows five stories as they are chopped, warped, and scattered, with hints of the changes tracked between.

An award-winning novel of love, betrayal, and Arab Israeli identity by the author of Dancing Arabs—“one of the most important contemporary Hebrew writers” (Haaretz). A successful Arab criminal attorney and a social worker-turned-artist find their lives intersecting under the most curious of circumstances. The lawyer has a thriving practice in Jerusalem, a large house, and a Mercedes. He speaks both Arabic and Hebrew, and lives with his wife and two young children. To maintain his image as a sophisticated Israeli Arab, he makes frequent visits to a local bookstore and picks up popular novels. But on one fateful evening, he decides to buy a used copy of Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata, a book his wife once recommended. Tucked in its pages, he finds a love letter, in Arabic . . . in his wife’s handwriting. Consumed with suspicion and jealousy, he decides to hunt down the book’s previous owner—a man named Yonatan. But Yonatan’s identity is more complex than the attorney imagined. In the process of dredging up old ghosts and secrets, the lawyer breaks the fragile threads that hold all of their lives together. Winner of the 2011 Bernstein Prize, Second Person Singular is “part comedy of manners, part psychological mystery” (The Boston Globe) that offers “sharp insights on the assumptions made about race, religion, ethnicity, and class that shape Israeli identity” (Publishers Weekly). “[Kashua’s] dry wit shines.” —Los Angeles Times “Kashua’s protagonists struggle, often comically . . . making his narratives more nuanced than some of the other Arabs writing about the conflict” —Newsweek “Sayed Kashua is a brilliant, funny, humane writer who effortlessly overturns any and all preconceptions about the Middle East. God, I love him.” —Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story