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Accept or reject tracked changes
GitLaw uses Track Changes - the same revision marks you'd see in Microsoft Word - as the single way to review any proposed edit, whether it comes from you, a collaborator, the AI Agent, or an imported DOCX file. Every insertion, deletion, or formatting change appears inline; nothing is hidden in a separate diff view.
Turning Track Changes on and off
When Track Changes is on, every edit you make is recorded as a tracked change rather than applied directly to the document.
- Open the document in the GitLaw Editor.
- Toggle Track Changes on using the control in the editor toolbar. When enabled, the control is highlighted and subsequent edits appear as coloured insertions or strikethrough deletions attributed to your name.
- Toggle it off to return to direct editing. Changes you already made with Track Changes on remain as revision marks until accepted or rejected.
The AI Agent follows the same toggle. When Track Changes is on, Agent edits also appear as tracked changes attributed to you - your counterparty sees your name, not the AI's.
Reviewing tracked changes
Insertions appear as coloured text and deletions appear as strikethrough, each labelled with the author's name and the date of the change. All pending changes are shown inline, so you can see exactly what's been proposed before you accept or reject anything.
Accepting or rejecting individual changes
- Click on a tracked change in the document. An action popover appears.
- Choose Accept to apply the change (insertions stay, deletions are removed) or Reject to discard it (insertions are removed, deletions are restored).
Each accept or reject creates a new version in history, so nothing is lost. You can view and restore version history at any time.
Accepting or rejecting all changes at once
To resolve all pending revision marks in one step, open the Track Changes menu in the toolbar and choose Accept All or Reject All. This creates a single new version capturing the result.
Changes from Word documents
When you import a DOCX file that already contains tracked changes, GitLaw preserves those revision marks with their original author names. Imported authors are shown with an External badge so you can tell them apart from GitLaw collaborators. Accepting or rejecting these marks works identically to native changes.
When you export to DOCX, tracked changes round-trip correctly and open with redlines in Word.