Microsoft Word for Windows and Mac automatically tracks total editing time of documents. Here’s where to find it.
You probably didn’t know this, but Word 2016 has a great feature for tracking how much time is spent creating or editing a document. I only just discovered it recently and instantly thought of legal and writer types who need to keep track of billable time. I personally use it to help me prioritize and adjust how much time is dedicated to authoring and editing certain documents at any one time. Anyway, here’s how it works and where to find the feature.
How to Find the Total Editing Time for Microsoft Word Documents on Windows
The total Editing time keeps track of how long you have the document open, not when it’s actively edited. Keep this in mind as you begin paying more attention to it.
You can find the editing time on a document multiple ways. For Word 2016 for Windows, click File Menu > Info tab in Backstage. Under the Properties column, it will list the “Total Editing Time”. In my document below it shows 682 minutes.
Another location is the Properties box of the file.
Right-click the file in File Explorer > Properties > Details tab. Scroll down to Total editing time to view the details.
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In Word 2016 for Mac, open the document, Click File > Properties.
Select the Statistics tab to view the total editing time. The Finder does not support this option, so you will always have to open Word for Mac to view it.
You might be wondering, what about other Microsoft Office files. Unfortunately, this feature is limited to Microsoft Word. I searched through Excel and Powerpoint but it appears Microsoft left it out in those apps.
About the Author. Brien Posey is a 16-time Microsoft MVP with decades of IT experience. As a freelance writer, Posey has written thousands of articles and contributed to several dozen books on a. Every Word document you create on your Mac is fashioned from a template. The purpose of a template is to store styles for documents. In the act of creating a document, you choose a template, and the styles on the template become available to you when you work on your document. To save time formatting.
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At Groovypost, we are equal opportunity technologists, so, here’s a bonus for Linux systems too. Users of the open source operating system are limited to the Libre Office open source productivity suite. The bundled word processor includes a total editing time feature, too. Open your Libre Writer document, click File > Properties > General tab.
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Let us know what you think. Do you find this feature helpful or more of a thin line between privacy invasion as I heard some describe it?
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