[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Have you tried turning off Track Changes and using Accept All Changes in
Document?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"JT" wrote in message
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New check boxes I add to a document show up brown in final document view.
Brown is the current color of all the edited data in the show markup. How
do
I make these new check boxes go back to black? Using format color like you
do
with text does not work.