Word XP Track Changes

[George Wilson]

I am assisting a customer using Word XP on a Windows XP
system. Customer would like to have track changes look the
same as it does in Word 2000 with the colored lettering
for changes and strikethroughs for deletions. I am
successful in getting this to work partially on my system
getting added text to show a diferent color. On her system
I cannot change the color of the added text to the
document. I have tried the obvious stuff, renamed the
normal.dot and renamed the settings file in the registry.
Neither of these seemed to help. We also have a security
override settings for macros in our corporation keeping
macro settings from being set below medium, I deleted this
key and I am still having issues. Would anyone happen to
know if there is another key/setting I can check for that
would cause this type of behavior? Is there any way to
make track changes on Word XP view the same as on Word
2000?
TIA
George

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

They changed the Track Changes interface in Word 2002, but you can set it
via a macro.

Quoting MVP Greg Maxey:

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You will have to run a macro. The following provides a means of controlling
most of the options. Here it is set up to show the margin marks only.:

Sub TrackChanges()

With Application.Options
.RevisedLinesMark = wdRevisedLinesMarkOutsideBorder
.RevisedLinesColor = wdAuto
' .DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkStrikeThrough
' .DeletedTextColor = wdRed
' .DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkHidden
' .InsertedTextMark = wdInsertedTextMarkItalic
' .InsertedTextColor = wdBlue
' .InsertedTextMark = wdInsertedTextMarkColorOnly
' .InsertedTextColor = wdAuto
' .RevisedPropertiesMark = wdRevisedPropertiesMarkColorOnly
' .RevisedPropertiesColor = wdAuto
' .RevisedPropertiesMark = wdRevisedPropertiesMarkColorOnly
' .RevisedPropertiesColor = wdViolet

End With
End Sub

Remove the ' next to lines you want to activate. Put a ' next to the lines
you want to deactivate. You can change color choices as well.

You only need to run the macro once.

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See these links for more information about macros:

What do I do with macros sent to me by other newsgroup readers to help me
out?
I don't know how to install them and put them to use
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm

Idiots Guide to Installing Macros
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

DM

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Is track changes turned on? Any changes done before track changes is
turned on will not show up in color.

In the Reviewing toolbar in Word XP, you can choose among four "views"
(Original, Original Showing Markup, Final, and Final Showing Markup).
Your customer's system is probably in Original or Final view, neither of
which will show changes in color. Switch to one of the Showing Markup
views (I prefer Final Showing Markup) to see added text in color. Turn
off balloons (Tools -> Options -> Track Changes -> uncheck "Use balloons
in Print and Web Layout") to see deletions in strikeout instead of in
balloons in the margin. You can change the color of changed text from
this menu too. You could choose different colors for inserted text and
deleted text in Word 97, but as far as I know, Word XP makes you choose
one color for both inserted and deleted (but you can choose different
colors for different authors).

Hope this helps. garfield-n-odie