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Making what you type be blue
I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented. Maybe
it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever??? |
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Making what you type be blue
One way to do it would be to activate the track changes feature and set the
font color for inserted text to blue and have the insertions marked by Color only -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented. Maybe it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever??? |
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Making what you type be blue
One way to do it would be to activate the track changes feature and set the
font color for inserted text to blue and have the insertions marked by Color only -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented. Maybe it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever??? |
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Making what you type be blue
Thanks! I thought the answer would most likely involve tracked changes.
Didn't know I could do it the way you said. But I did and it works! You said that is one way. Is that the best (only) way? Which is actually OK. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: One way to do it would be to activate the track changes feature and set the font color for inserted text to blue and have the insertions marked by Color only -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented. Maybe it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever??? |
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Making what you type be blue
Thanks! I thought the answer would most likely involve tracked changes.
Didn't know I could do it the way you said. But I did and it works! You said that is one way. Is that the best (only) way? Which is actually OK. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: One way to do it would be to activate the track changes feature and set the font color for inserted text to blue and have the insertions marked by Color only -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented. Maybe it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever??? |
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Making what you type be blue
The other way would be to define a Style with the required formatting. With
that method however, you would have to apply the style to each paragraph that you typed, whereas, with the Tracked Changes method, all you have to do is switch on the Revision Tracking and automatically, everything that you add to the document will be formatted in the way that inserted text is set to be formatted. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... Thanks! I thought the answer would most likely involve tracked changes. Didn't know I could do it the way you said. But I did and it works! You said that is one way. Is that the best (only) way? Which is actually OK. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: One way to do it would be to activate the track changes feature and set the font color for inserted text to blue and have the insertions marked by Color only -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented. Maybe it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever??? |
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Making what you type be blue
The other way would be to define a Style with the required formatting. With
that method however, you would have to apply the style to each paragraph that you typed, whereas, with the Tracked Changes method, all you have to do is switch on the Revision Tracking and automatically, everything that you add to the document will be formatted in the way that inserted text is set to be formatted. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... Thanks! I thought the answer would most likely involve tracked changes. Didn't know I could do it the way you said. But I did and it works! You said that is one way. Is that the best (only) way? Which is actually OK. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: One way to do it would be to activate the track changes feature and set the font color for inserted text to blue and have the insertions marked by Color only -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented. Maybe it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever??? |
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Making what you type be blue
But the Track Changes scheme won't work if you're _required_ to type
your answers in blue, because you can't control what color your tracked changes will appear in on someone else's computer. If it's ok for the teacher to see your answers in red or green or purple, then do it as Track Changes. (Or you could make a pdf with the tracked changes showing, and it won't change colors when you send it on.) On Mar 14, 8:57*pm, Random wrote: Thanks! I thought the answer would most likely involve tracked changes. Didn't know I could do it the way you said. But I did and it works! You said that is one way. Is that the best (only) way? Which is actually OK. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: One way to do it would be to activate the track changes feature and set the font color for inserted text to blue and have the insertions marked by Color only -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented.. Maybe it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever???- |
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Making what you type be blue
But the Track Changes scheme won't work if you're _required_ to type
your answers in blue, because you can't control what color your tracked changes will appear in on someone else's computer. If it's ok for the teacher to see your answers in red or green or purple, then do it as Track Changes. (Or you could make a pdf with the tracked changes showing, and it won't change colors when you send it on.) On Mar 14, 8:57*pm, Random wrote: Thanks! I thought the answer would most likely involve tracked changes. Didn't know I could do it the way you said. But I did and it works! You said that is one way. Is that the best (only) way? Which is actually OK. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: One way to do it would be to activate the track changes feature and set the font color for inserted text to blue and have the insertions marked by Color only -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com "Random" wrote in message ... I don't understand why this feature is not already easily implemented.. Maybe it is... You get a document that has a list like below in black. fish dog tree Your assignment is to write something under each item but you want what you type to be in blue. Is there a way to do that? (And I am not asking about typeing, then selecting, then making it blue. I want whatever I type no matter where I type to be blue. The items in black must remain black.) How many times do you get a list of questions from your instructor and you want your answers in blue, italics, bold whatever???- |
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