Track changes color constantly changes for individual author

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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

 

[Stefan Blom]

Colors seem to be more or less randomly assigned. See
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html.

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[Guest]

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]

I don't understand why it happens, either. I guess we just have to
live with it...

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