Track Changes (Colours for deletion)

[Maureen Thompson]

WOrd 2000 (and before?) has an option for changes
colours/formatting to deleted text when tracking changes.
Word 2002 appears to have removed this function. How do I
go about changing the colour of deleted text. Our client
has asked for our deletions to be black with
strickethrough, it appears that the default is red
strikethrough.

Thanks in advance

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Maureen

You can't alter the colour or styling of deletions from the user interface
in Word
2002, but you can still do it using VBA:

Options.DeletedTextColor = wdBlack

You can enter this in the Visual Basic immediate window (Alt - F11,
Ctrl -G).

Note, though, that the appearance of revisions is specific to the machine
you are reading on - so if you are sending Word documents as opposed to
printed or PDF docs to your client you will need to tell *them* to do this
(or include a macro to do it for them), not just set it yourself.

 

[Maureen]

Margaret,

Thanks for your reply, at least now I know that you can't
do this via the interface and I'm not going mad! I am not
even up to newbie stage with VBA!, I put this line of code
in as follows, under the "doucument" dropdown

Private Sub Document_New()
Options.DeletedTextColor = wdBlack
End Sub

it doesn;t appear to work, also can I set this to always
happen as default (rather than having to do it in each
document?

Thanks again

Maureen

 

[Margaret Aldis]

Hi Maureen

Have a look again at my previous instructions on enter the line of VBA. This
*is* a change of default and will affect how you see all documents on your
machine.

If you want the code to run on the *recipient's* machine, for documents that
you are sending to someone else, you will need to include the macro in each
document. You need to catch the 'open' event, not the new document one. See
http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/DocumentEvents.htm. This will only
work if the recipient has Medium or lower security and allows the macro to
run, of course, so whatever you do you will have to liaise with your client
on this one.