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Track changes color by author (first author is not showing up in r
I have a user who has selected to track changes by author. She is the first
person to make changes to the document but her changes are being tracked in purple. I thought when changes are tracked by Author, the first author's changes are red, the second author is in blue, and every author after that is randomly assigned a color that you have no control over. This user wants her changes displayed in red but she wants to keep the "by author" setting and not manually select red because others will be making changes, too, and she wants them displayed in different colors. I've never seen Word have the first author's changes show up in a color other than red. Is there any place to change this? Thanks. |
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Track changes color by author (first author is not showing up in r
You can select a specific color or By Author. When you choose the latter,
you give up all control over the color used for your markup. And note that the color used for you on your machine will not necessarily be the same as that used for your changes on someone else's machine, so try to avoid referring to specific colors when you describe your markup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "trg01" wrote in message ... I have a user who has selected to track changes by author. She is the first person to make changes to the document but her changes are being tracked in purple. I thought when changes are tracked by Author, the first author's changes are red, the second author is in blue, and every author after that is randomly assigned a color that you have no control over. This user wants her changes displayed in red but she wants to keep the "by author" setting and not manually select red because others will be making changes, too, and she wants them displayed in different colors. I've never seen Word have the first author's changes show up in a color other than red. Is there any place to change this? Thanks. |
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You can change color settings in Tools\options\track cahnges tab.
-- Best regards, Harvey "trg01" wrote: I have a user who has selected to track changes by author. She is the first person to make changes to the document but her changes are being tracked in purple. I thought when changes are tracked by Author, the first author's changes are red, the second author is in blue, and every author after that is randomly assigned a color that you have no control over. This user wants her changes displayed in red but she wants to keep the "by author" setting and not manually select red because others will be making changes, too, and she wants them displayed in different colors. I've never seen Word have the first author's changes show up in a color other than red. Is there any place to change this? Thanks. |
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Track changes color by author (first author is not showing up
Thank you. I think the problem was we had changed her name under Tools,
Options, User Information but then didn't restart Word right away. Even though we we opened on a new document and she was the first author to track changes, the changes were coming out purple. After restarting Word, though, the color then defaulted to red when tracking changes on all new documents and this is what she was used to seeing. I didn't realize that when you select "By Author", the color assigned to you on your pc wouldn't necessarily be the same color when someone else opened the document so thank you for that information. Very useful. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can select a specific color or By Author. When you choose the latter, you give up all control over the color used for your markup. And note that the color used for you on your machine will not necessarily be the same as that used for your changes on someone else's machine, so try to avoid referring to specific colors when you describe your markup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "trg01" wrote in message ... I have a user who has selected to track changes by author. She is the first person to make changes to the document but her changes are being tracked in purple. I thought when changes are tracked by Author, the first author's changes are red, the second author is in blue, and every author after that is randomly assigned a color that you have no control over. This user wants her changes displayed in red but she wants to keep the "by author" setting and not manually select red because others will be making changes, too, and she wants them displayed in different colors. I've never seen Word have the first author's changes show up in a color other than red. Is there any place to change this? Thanks. |
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Track changes color by author (first author is not showing up
For more scoop on Track Changes, see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "trg01" wrote in message ... Thank you. I think the problem was we had changed her name under Tools, Options, User Information but then didn't restart Word right away. Even though we we opened on a new document and she was the first author to track changes, the changes were coming out purple. After restarting Word, though, the color then defaulted to red when tracking changes on all new documents and this is what she was used to seeing. I didn't realize that when you select "By Author", the color assigned to you on your pc wouldn't necessarily be the same color when someone else opened the document so thank you for that information. Very useful. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You can select a specific color or By Author. When you choose the latter, you give up all control over the color used for your markup. And note that the color used for you on your machine will not necessarily be the same as that used for your changes on someone else's machine, so try to avoid referring to specific colors when you describe your markup. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "trg01" wrote in message ... I have a user who has selected to track changes by author. She is the first person to make changes to the document but her changes are being tracked in purple. I thought when changes are tracked by Author, the first author's changes are red, the second author is in blue, and every author after that is randomly assigned a color that you have no control over. This user wants her changes displayed in red but she wants to keep the "by author" setting and not manually select red because others will be making changes, too, and she wants them displayed in different colors. I've never seen Word have the first author's changes show up in a color other than red. Is there any place to change this? Thanks. |
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