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Track changes color constantly changes for individual author
A colleague of mine has her track changes set to "by author" but her own
colors change constantly as if she is a different author each time she edits a document. She has her correct info in Tools Options User Info and has the "remove personal info" box unchecked in Tools Options Security (saw this suggested in another post and thought it must be the answer...sadly not). Is there another reason that this could be happening? As I understood it your own colors should stay the same on your own pc even if the "by author" option is chosen. I know you can't control how a different user sees our changes but your own display should be stable...shouldn't it? Word version is 2003. Thanks in advance for any help. Nikki |
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Track changes color constantly changes for individual author
Colors seem to be more or less randomly assigned. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "nikkiLR" wrote in message ... A colleague of mine has her track changes set to "by author" but her own colors change constantly as if she is a different author each time she edits a document. She has her correct info in Tools Options User Info and has the "remove personal info" box unchecked in Tools Options Security (saw this suggested in another post and thought it must be the answer...sadly not). Is there another reason that this could be happening? As I understood it your own colors should stay the same on your own pc even if the "by author" option is chosen. I know you can't control how a different user sees our changes but your own display should be stable...shouldn't it? Word version is 2003. Thanks in advance for any help. Nikki |
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Track changes color constantly changes for individual author
Thanks Stefan, I've used Shauna's site a lot - it's incredibly useful.
I do take your (and Shauna's) point about the colors being fairly randomly assigned once multiple authors are involved but if I edit a doc it shows my insertions/deletions in red and comments in turquoise/aqua - this is consistent from doc to doc and from day to day. Once further authors get involved then it does get complicated but for a single document edited by a single user on a single machine I don't understand why my settings are stable and my colleague's aren't. Nikki "Stefan Blom" wrote: Colors seem to be more or less randomly assigned. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "nikkiLR" wrote in message ... A colleague of mine has her track changes set to "by author" but her own colors change constantly as if she is a different author each time she edits a document. She has her correct info in Tools Options User Info and has the "remove personal info" box unchecked in Tools Options Security (saw this suggested in another post and thought it must be the answer...sadly not). Is there another reason that this could be happening? As I understood it your own colors should stay the same on your own pc even if the "by author" option is chosen. I know you can't control how a different user sees our changes but your own display should be stable...shouldn't it? Word version is 2003. Thanks in advance for any help. Nikki |
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Track changes color constantly changes for individual author
I don't understand why it happens, either. I guess we just have to
live with it... -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "nikkiLR" wrote in message ... Thanks Stefan, I've used Shauna's site a lot - it's incredibly useful. I do take your (and Shauna's) point about the colors being fairly randomly assigned once multiple authors are involved but if I edit a doc it shows my insertions/deletions in red and comments in turquoise/aqua - this is consistent from doc to doc and from day to day. Once further authors get involved then it does get complicated but for a single document edited by a single user on a single machine I don't understand why my settings are stable and my colleague's aren't. Nikki "Stefan Blom" wrote: Colors seem to be more or less randomly assigned. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trac...ngesWorks.html. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "nikkiLR" wrote in message ... A colleague of mine has her track changes set to "by author" but her own colors change constantly as if she is a different author each time she edits a document. She has her correct info in Tools Options User Info and has the "remove personal info" box unchecked in Tools Options Security (saw this suggested in another post and thought it must be the answer...sadly not). Is there another reason that this could be happening? As I understood it your own colors should stay the same on your own pc even if the "by author" option is chosen. I know you can't control how a different user sees our changes but your own display should be stable...shouldn't it? Word version is 2003. Thanks in advance for any help. Nikki |
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