AdWords Editor: Review an Imported File

When you import a file, the Review Proposed Changes panel appears. The panel contains a key to the highlighted changes in your account: proposed changes are green, unposted local changes are purple, and conflicts between proposed changes and unposted changes are red.

To view only the proposed changes in the data views of each tab, go to the View menu > Proposed changes only.

 To view only the unposted changes that overlap with the proposed changes, select Unposted changes with proposed changes only.

AdWords Editor: Accept or Reject Changes

When you review changes that you've imported in AdWords Editor, you have the option to reject any changes you don't want to apply to the account.

To reject a proposed edit entirely, select the row containing the edit you want to reject, then click Reject Selected Proposals in the tab tool bar. This option is also in the Edit menu. In the case of a new proposed ad group or campaign, this will also reject any of the proposed edits within that ad group or campaign.

To reject aspects of a proposed edit that conflict with your own unposted local changes, select the row containing the edit you want to reject. Go to the Edit menu > Reject Selected Conflicting Proposals.

If instead you want to revert your unposted change in the selected row and keep the proposed change, simply click Revert Selected Changes in the tab tool bar.

Once you've reviewed the proposed changes, you can take the following actions to clear away the merge panel and signal that the merge is finished:

1. Click Keep Proposed Changes to accept all proposals that you haven't explicitly rejected.
2. Click Reject Proposed Changes to clear away every proposed change. This action won't affect any edits you've made since importing the proposal.

At this stage, you can either post the edits to the account, or export and share with another AdWords Editor user.

AdWords Editor: Check Changes

When you click Check Changes in the tool bar, AdWords Editor reviews all your unposted changes, helping to ensure the changes comply with AdWords policies. To check your changes, follow these steps:

1. Click Check Changes on the tool bar.
2. Review the count of changes that will be checked.
3. Click Show Details to view information for each campaign.
4. Click Check Changes to proceed with the editorial checks.

AdWords Editor will review the changes and show a count of how many items pass the check.

Items that fail checks will display a red circle with an exclamation mark to their left in the data view. To see specific errors, navigate to the keywords or text ads and select them in the data view. A red box below the data view will show explanations of violations as well as suggestions for how to fix them.

AdWords Editor also includes a spell-check feature, though only for certain languages (English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Dutch). To spell-check a field, right-click the field and select 'Spell check this field' in the right-click menu.