What is a MS Word 2013 Feature Called ????

TenOC wrote:
I am creating a family history. I expect the history will be 100's of pages long and will include a number of photos and drawings of family trees as well as internal and external links.

1. Since the history will include a lot of formatting, I will use MS Word 2013. I thought about Google Docs, but I think Word will handle the formatting better. Your thoughts. . . . . :h

2. I will then share this history with my full family (about 50 people) using MS OneDrive or Google Drive. Since I will (?) use MS Word, I will probably use OneDrive.

3. My question. I want to allow members of the family to add to the family history. I hope that there will be 100's of additions and changes. I know that MS Word and Google Docs each allow for editing by people you invite. However, I want more than simple editing. I want the document to show "Added by XXXXXX on dd/mm/yyyy" to each comment or edit. I am sure (?) that Word can do this, but I do not know what this feature is called so I can search on how to use it. I have looked at "Track Changes" but once the change is accepted and the file is saved the author's information is lost. Is there a way to accept the change and keep the author's information?

4. I have thought about footnotes, but this requires more MS Work "skill" than some of the family have. I would like for the action to be automatically.

Create your document and then go to the REVIEW tab in the ribbon. Turn on TRACK CHANGES and SHOW COMMENTS. Then go to the section that says "simple markup". You have options to show every single tiny change, in "all markup" from the pull-down. Choose "all markup" if you want to see every change. Then also go into "show markup" and check the things you want to see.

To add a comment, go back to the INSERT tab, and click on "comment" usually kind of in the middle of the ribbon. Once you do that, you will have a wide margin on the right. It puts a line to where your cursor is and makes a "balloon" with your comment in it. You can have whatever you want in the balloon---comments or revisions. THE BALLOON SHOWS WHO MADE THE CHANGES, and that is what you want to see.

You can also create a "Template". My preference is to start with the simple single-spaced template. Then set the margins you want and the font you want to use. When saving the document, answer "yes" when asked if you want to save changes to the template. That will make the default settings in your document.