Multiple track changes

[Guest]

I have edited a document several times, i.e. I have several drafts. I want
to distinguish my tracked changes for each version. It is all my changes so
all are in one color now but I would like to distringuish the changes I made
in version one from the changes I made in version 2, etc. Any ideas would be
greatly appreciated.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

You can manually set a different color for each editing round. Or, you can
use Word's built-in Version feature (choose File - Versions). The latter
probably won't give you exactly what you want, and the former is a bit
clumsy in that you have to remember each time (and you will eventually run
out of colors if there are a lot of versions).

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't believe your first solution will work at all. When you change the
color in Tools | Options | Track Changes, the existing changes change color
as well. The only way I know of to get different colors is to set the color
to "By Author" and change the user name (Tools | Options | User Information)
slightly between versions.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Oops! Thanks! I meant to add that... Hence, he'd have to use something like
Jason1, Jason2, etc. (I did that in testing the "solution" here, but somehow
managed to omit it from my post.)