Clearing Tracked Changes and Comments

Before you touch a single formatting setting, get your manuscript down to plain, final text. Editorial back-and-forth — tracked changes, comment bubbles, suggested edits — has no place in a file you're about to convert into an ebook, and leaving any of it in place risks stray markup bleeding into the converted file.

Open the Review tab. Under Tracking, make sure Track Changes is switched off so you stop generating new markup as you work. Then use Accept and Reject (or their "Accept All"/"Reject All" dropdown options) to resolve every tracked change in the document — don't leave anything showing as "final: show markup."

Comments are a separate layer. You can dismiss them one at a time by right-clicking a comment bubble and choosing Delete Thread, but for a full manuscript it's faster to use Review → Delete → Delete All Comments in Document. Do a final scroll-through with formatting marks visible (see the next lesson) to confirm nothing was left behind.