Changing a Reviewer's Color

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Kaydee

Anyone know how to change a reviewer's color instead of
letting the system automatically select it?

The problem is that two people are editing a document and
both have been assigned "red" by the system.

Thanks!

kd
 
Try "Tools", "Options", click the "Track Changes" TAB, change the "Color",
"By Author" to a specific color (preferably different from what the other
person has). Actually it might be a good idea to have each person set their
color to a specific color that everyone knows so they are all different. Of
course, then you have to get each one to agree on their favorite color! HA!
 
Yeah, I've tried this, but after I merge the docs, all
the review-text is still in red.

Another issue with this that may be related, is that
whilst in the reviewed text I can see which author wrote
what, but under the Doc Properties the Author's names are
different. Now, I can imagine that the original doc's
Author name should stay the same (in the doc properties),
and that in the context or 'Reviewing' the Author refers
to that of the review text, not of the document
ownership, so my questions are:

1) Should each of us be taking ownership (Authorship) for
the multi-colour review to work? (we tried this, but it
still displays all our text in red)

2) Where is Word getting the Author info from if it's not
getting it from Properties? From our Windows logon?

Cheers.
 
Word is getting the Reviewer from the User Information (Tools | Options) on
the system or profile being used. If you set the color to By Author for all
the collaborators, you should get a different color for each reviewer; they
will not be consistent from one machine to another (you may be red on your
machine and blue on someone else's), but everyone will have a different
color.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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