Manually mark unchanged document content as changed

Question

I made some changes to a document before remembering to enable change tracking. Is there a way I can select some text and forcibly tell MSWord "mark this as changed"?

Answer 1

As there is no command to do that, here is what I usually do to mark some text as “changed”, without removing the tracking:

• Select all the text you want to mark,
• Cut it,
• Accept the removal,
• Paste it back.

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Here is a GIF (with some french language inside the contextual menu, but it's easy to understand!) :

I hope it helps.

Answer 2

I wasnt happy with this answer - but stumbled by accident on another way.

Simply mark the block you want to put a revision mark next to - then go to the FONTS and change the font color and change it back.

Works a treat in Word 2016