| A | B |
| Author | The owner, or creator, of the original document. |
| Balloon | The outline shape in which a comments or formatting change displays. |
| Building blocks | Reusable pieces of content or other document parts - for example, headers, footers, and page number formats - that are stored in galleries. |
| Building Blocks Organizer | Provides a view of all available building blocks from all the different galleries in one location. |
| Click and type pointer | The text select - I-beam - pointer with various attached shapes that indicate which formatting - left-aligned, centered, or right-aligned - will be applied when you double-click in a blank area of a document. |
| Combine | A Track Changes feature that allows you to review two different documents containing revisions, both based on an original document. |
| Comment | A note that an author or reviewer adds to a document. |
| Compare | A Track Changes feature that enables you to review differences between an original document and the latest version of the document. |
| Hyphenation | A tool in Word that controls how words are split between two lines. |
| Lock Tracking | A feature that prevents reviewers from turning off Track Changes and making changes that are not visible in markup. |
| Ink | Revision marks made directly on a documents by using a stylus on a Tablet PC. |
| Markup | The formatting Word uses to denote a document's revisions visually. |
| Markup area | The space to the right or left of a document where comments and formatting changes display in balloons. |
| Original | A Track Changes view that hides the tracked chages and shows the original, unchanged document with comments hidden. |
| Person Card | A feature that allows you to communicate with a reviewer—using email, instant messaging, phone, or video—directly from a comment. |
| Quick Parts | All of the reusable pieces of content that are available to insert into a document, including building blocks, document properties, and fields. |
| Quick Tables | Tables that are stored as building blocks. |
| Reviewer | An individual who reviews and marks changes on a document. |
| Reviewing Pane | A separate scrollable window that displays all of the current changes and comments in a document. |
| Revisions | Changes made to a document. |
| Synchronous scrolling | In side-by-side view, both documents scroll simultaneously. |
| Text box | A movable resizable container for text or graphics. |
| Theme | A predesigned set of colors, fonts, lines, and fill effects that look good together and that can be applied to your entire documents or to specific items. |
| Theme template | A stored, user-defined set of colors, fonts, and effects that can be shared with other Office programs. |
| Track Changes | A feature that makes a record of the changes made to a document. |
| Vertical change bar | Displays in the left margin next to each line of text that contains a revision. |
| View Side by Side | Displays two open documents, in separate windows, next to each other on the screen. |
| All Markup | A Track Changes view that displays the document with all revisions and comments visible. |
| No Markup | A Track Changes view that displays the document in its final form—with all proposed changes included and comments hidden. |
| Simple Markup | The default Track Changes view that indicates revisions by vertical red lines in the left margin and indicates comments by icons in the right margin. |