How to Disable Track Changes & Revisions in a Word Document using Node.js

Thanks to the OpenXML document standard, building applications that interact with DOCX files is relatively easy. All we need is the right library — or the right API.

Using the ready-to-run Node.js code examples below, we can take advantage of a free API that disables track changes within a DOCX document and automatically accepts any pending changes. This makes it easy to programmatically finalize DOCX revisions and save the results in a custom application workflow.

To use this API for free, we’ll just need a free-tier API key, which will allow a limit of 800 API calls per month & no commitments. This is a great option for getting projects off the ground & scaling quickly.

We can begin structuring our API call by installing the SDK. To do that, we can either run this command:

npm install cloudmersive-convert-api-client --save

Or we can add this snippet to our package.json:

  "dependencies": {
    "cloudmersive-convert-api-client": "^2.6.3"
  }

Finally, we can use the below code to call the function. We can include our API key and our file in this snippet:

var CloudmersiveConvertApiClient = require('cloudmersive-convert-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ApiClient.instance;

// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';



var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.EditDocumentApi();

var inputFile = Buffer.from(fs.readFileSync("C:\\temp\\inputfile").buffer); // File | Input file to perform the operation on.


var callback = function(error, data, response) {
  if (error) {
    console.error(error);
  } else {
    console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
  }
};
apiInstance.editDocumentDocxDisableTrackChanges(inputFile, callback);

Now we can easily finalize a document revision process in a custom applicaiton workflow.