You don't want to accept all changes. Instead, click on the
"Track Changes" button on the Reviewing toolbar (it's the
second-to-last button on my computer), or press Ctrl+Shift+E, to
turn off track changes.

M Skabialka wrote:

If someone sends you a document with track changes turned on in it, how do
you turn it off? I tried accept all changes but then it adds more tracking
when I change something.

It was easy in Office 2000 and before - turn it off!. Now the menus have
multiple choices, none of which are obvious, and who knows what they do!

I want to edit it, not track anything, and send it back.

Thanks,
Mich