[Peter T. Daniels]

Sounds like Track Changes is turned on (though usually additions are
marked with red underline).

Among the many ways to turn it off is to press Ctrl-Shift-E.

On Mar 21, 11:43*pm, wrdjb51 wrote:
On a new Windows 8 *machine, I am having problems making changes and
adding txt to a existing document apparently related to formatting. The
primary problem is if I attempt to add txt , or modify txt , the color
of these characters is blue. I cannot change the color back to black
using the typical methods in Word.

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wrdjb51