Track Changes

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Oliver

Can anyone help? I just recently upgraded my Office Suite
to Office XP. I often use track changes for my projects,
but now I only have one colour though before I had 2
coulors red and blue. Can anyone tell me how to keep the
two colours?

Thanks
 
Oliver,

That is a problem in Word2002 corrected in Word2003. You
will need to run a macro (just once) to set your choices:

Sub TrackChanges()
'
' TrackChanges Macro
' Macro basics provided by Shauna Kelly and edited
11/19/2002 by Gregory K.Maxey

With Application.Options
.RevisedLinesMark = wdRevisedLinesMarkOutsideBorder
.RevisedLinesColor = wdAuto
.DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkStrikeThrough
.DeletedTextColor = wdRed
' .DeletedTextMark = wdDeletedTextMarkHidden
.InsertedTextMark = wdInsertedTextMarkItalic
.InsertedTextColor = wdBlue
' .InsertedTextMark = wdInsertedTextMarkColorOnly
' .InsertedTextColor = wdAuto
' .RevisedPropertiesMark =
wdRevisedPropertiesMarkColorOnly
' .RevisedPropertiesColor = wdAuto
.RevisedPropertiesMark =
wdRevisedPropertiesMarkColorOnly
.RevisedPropertiesColor = wdViolet

End With
End Sub

This includes about the range of options for track changes
and I use the '
to suppress the features I don't want. For more on how to
apply macros,
see:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm
 
thank you greg

but i can't get it to work nothing happens in my track
changes

thanks anyway
 
It didn't work for me, either! I need to be able to choose how to track the deletions as well as the insertions in Word 2002, something I could do in Word 2000.

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thank you gre

but i can't get it to work nothing happens in my track
change

thanks anywa
 
What didn't work?

It isn't supposed to work retroactively, only to adjust the settings from
that point forward, so be sure to run it before you start tracking changes.

The macro includes a lot of options (including tracking deletions), but as
is, the lines beginning with an apostrophe are inactive. You may need to
delete and add apostrophes to various lines to get your preferred settings.

DM
 
There's the rub. We receive documents from other depts. to edit and word process. We very rarely key into a new doc

How can I fix track changes (as your macro does very well in a new doc) in an EXISTING document? That's where the macro doesn't work

Thank you, again!
 
Hi Emily

When you run that macro in an existing document, what do you see, and what
do you want to see?

And, what version of Word are you using?

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


Emily B said:
There's the rub. We receive documents from other depts. to edit and word
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process. We very rarely key into a new doc.
How can I fix track changes (as your macro does very well in a new doc) in
Click to expand...
an EXISTING document? That's where the macro doesn't work.
 
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