Skip to main content

Kutools for Office ā€” One Suite. Five Tools. Get More Done.

How to accept or reject all changes in Excel?

Author Sun Last modified

f you have a workbook, and you want to accept or rejectc all the changes in it made by other users, do you know how to get it done? Here I talk about the steps to accept or reject all changes in a share workbook.

Accept or reject all changes in Excel

First, you need to make some settings to the workbook.

1. Open the workbook you want to accept/reject the changes and click File > Options > Trust Center > Trust Center Settings > Privacy Options, then go to the Document-specific settings section and uncheck Remove personal information from file properties on save box. Then click OK > OK to close the dialogs. See screenshot:

uncheck Remove personal information from file properties on save box

2. Click Review > Track Changes > Highlight Changes to open the Highlight Changes dialog. See screenshot:

turn on highlight changes feature

3. In the Highlight Changes dialog, check Track Changes while editing. This also shares your workbook box, then click OK to close the dialog. See screenshot:

check Track Changes while editing

Now, you can save the workbook and let other users change or edit it. Then you can accept or reject the changes made by others.

4. Open the workbook after editing by others, and click Review > Track Changes > Accept/Reject Changes to open the Select Changes to Accept or Reject dialog. See screenshot:

turn on Accept/Reject Changes

5. In the Select Changes to Accept or Reject dialog, click OK. See screenshot:

check when option

6. Then the Accept/Reject Changes dialog pops up, click Accept All or  Reject All as you need. See screenshot:

Accept All or Reject All

Relative Articles:

Best Office Productivity Tools

šŸ¤– Kutools AI Aide: Revolutionize data analysis based on: Intelligent Execution   |  Generate Code  |  Create Custom Formulas  |  Analyze Data and Generate Charts  |  Invoke Kutools Functionsā€¦
Popular Features: Find, Highlight or Identify Duplicates   |  Delete Blank Rows   |  Combine Columns or Cells without Losing Data   |   Round without Formula ...
Super Lookup: Multiple Criteria VLookup  |   Multiple Value VLookup  |   VLookup Across Multiple Sheets   |   Fuzzy Lookup ....
Advanced Drop-down List: Quickly Create Drop Down List   |  Dependent Drop Down List   |  Multi-select Drop Down List ....
Column Manager: Add a Specific Number of Columns  |  Move Columns  |  Toggle Visibility Status of Hidden Columns  |  Compare Ranges & Columns ...
Featured Features: Grid Focus   |  Design View   |   Big Formula Bar   |  Workbook & Sheet Manager   |  Resource Library (Auto Text)   |  Date Picker   |  Combine Worksheets   |  Encrypt/Decrypt Cells   |  Send Emails by List   |  Super Filter   |   Special Filter (filter bold/italic/strikethrough...) ...
Top 15 Toolsets:  12 Text Tools (Add Text, Remove Characters, ...)   |   50+ Chart Types (Gantt Chart, ...)   |   40+ Practical Formulas (Calculate age based on birthday, ...)   |   19 Insertion Tools (Insert QR Code, Insert Picture from Path, ...)   |   12 Conversion Tools (Numbers to Words, Currency Conversion, ...)   |   7 Merge & Split Tools (Advanced Combine Rows, Split Cells, ...)   |   ... and more
Use Kutools in your preferred language ā€“ supports English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, and 40+ others!

Supercharge Your Excel Skills with Kutools for Excel, and Experience Efficiency Like Never Before. Kutools for Excel Offers Over 300 Advanced Features to Boost Productivity and Save Time.  Click Here to Get The Feature You Need The Most...

Office Tab Brings Tabbed interface to Office, and Make Your Work Much Easier

  • Enable tabbed editing and reading in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access, Visio and Project.
  • Open and create multiple documents in new tabs of the same window, rather than in new windows.
  • Increases your productivity by 50%, and reduces hundreds of mouse clicks for you every day!

All Kutools add-ins. One installer

Kutools for Office suite bundles add-ins for Excel, Word, Outlook & PowerPoint plus Office Tab Pro, which is ideal for teams working across Office apps.

Excel Word Outlook Tabs PowerPoint
  • All-in-one suite ā€” Excel, Word, Outlook & PowerPoint add-ins + Office Tab Pro
  • One installer, one license ā€” set up in minutes (MSI-ready)
  • Works better together ā€” streamlined productivity across Office apps
  • 30-day full-featured trial ā€” no registration, no credit card
  • Best value ā€” save vs buying individual add-in