Defines the appearance of changes in the document.

To record or show changes in your text or spreadsheet document, choose Edit - Track Changes - Record or Edit - Track Changes - Show.

To access this command...

Open a text document, choose - LibreOffice Writer - Changes.

Text display

Defines the settings for displaying recorded changes. Select the type of change and the corresponding display attribute and color. The preview field shows the effect of the selected display options.

Insertions / Attributes

Specifies how changes in the document are displayed when text is inserted.

Deletions / Attributes

Specifies how changes in the document are displayed when text is deleted. If you record text deletions, the text is displayed with the selected attribute (for example, strikethrough) and is not deleted.

Changed attributes / Attributes

Defines how changes to text attributes are displayed in the document. These changes affect attributes such as bold, italic or underline.


You can also choose a color to display each type of recorded change. When you choose the condition "By author" in the list, the color is automatically determined by LibreOffice, then modified to match to the author of each change.

Lines changed

To indicate which lines of the text have been changed, you can define a mark that appears in the left or right page margin.


Defines if and where changed lines in the document are marked. You can set the markings so that they always appear on the left or right page margin, or on the outer or inner margin.


Specifies the color for highlighting the changed lines in the text.

Preview Field

Displays a preview of the current selection.

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