Retain the color to accepted changes using the Track Changes feature

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Krish

So I used track changes to highlight my changes in
different color. After I accept the changes, Word
converts the color back to black / automatic. However, I
want to retain the color. I tried various tricks
(including find and replace). Nothing works (in case of
find and replace, it doesn't identify the color of changes
enabled by Track changes feature).

Does someone know a trick for this one? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Krish
 
Andre, thanks..tried that. But doesn't work.
-----Original Message-----
Try this, I'm not sure, go to Tools > Track Changes > in the "Color" pop
down menu select the color of your choice and click ok.

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.



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Hi, Krish,

Word can't do what you want. Once you accept changes, the result isn't
being tracked any more -- it's just plain text.

You can define a character style that adds the color you want, and
apply that style to each place where you've accepted a tracked change.
There's nothing automatic about this, though.
 
Hi Krish,

The following macro will display inserted text in Red when the changes are
accepted. Deleted text is however deleted so you can't apply a color to it.

Dim arev As Revision
For Each arev In ActiveDocument.Revisions
If arev.Type = wdRevisionInsert Then
arev.Range.Font.Color = wdColorRed
arev.Accept
Else
arev.Accept
End If
Next arev


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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
Andre,

Are you sure you read the poster's problem carefully? Your reply to this
particular post (and others before) while not being something misleading
about Word in general, was totally beside the point. The OP wanted to know
how to keep the colour on the changed text AFTER accepting the change, not
how to change the colour of the changed text BEFORE it is accepted...

_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
Hi Kris,

While reading Jay's reply, I had a flash!

Why don't you set the colour of the text you write when you first write it:

You have a document;
You want to edit it while tracking changes;
You place the cursor where you want to type new text;
Normally, you type the new text, it is some colour, let's say red;
You accept the changes;
The previously red text (Red because of tracking) reverts to the default
current style;
Right?

My flash.... tadam....(drum rolls!) (It's getting late!)
You have a document;
You want to edit it while tracking changes;
You place the cursor where you want to type new text;
On the formatting toolbar, change the text colour, to say, Lime green! (So,
from that point on the text will be Lime Green)
You type the new text, it is some colour, let's say red (Because that is the
default track changes colour you set, you will not see the Lime Green just
yet);
You accept the changes;
The previously red text (Red because of tracking) reverts to Lime Green;
Right?

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Cheers!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
(e-mail address removed)
Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org
 
Try this, I'm not sure, go to Tools > Track Changes > in the "Color" pop
down menu select the color of your choice and click ok.

Andre Da Costa
Jamaica W.I.
 
Doug..thanks for the resolution. Although the solution
works beautifully on everything that is non table related
but when you make only a specific change in the table, the
macro converts all the cells in the table to the color
specified. Do you know of some way to modify the macro to
address this?

thanks to others too for their proposed resolutions.
Krish
 
Hi Krish,

That doesn't happen for me using Word 2003. Only the inserted text is
colored. What version of Word are you using.

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Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
 
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