Tracked Changes - selecting your text colour choice

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victoria Borwick

sorry what is your recommendation, what is the answer, I understand the
colours will change each time, but I have that terrible slushy green at the
moment and it is not readable. Blue or Red would be fine etc. thanks
 
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grammatim

It must think you're the fourth or fifth author making changes -- have
you changed your UserName a lot? Are there in fact changes by others?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

The colors used on your system are unrelated to what anyone else will see,
since all the settings are local. You can select Blue or Red on your own
system for readability, and this will not affect the By Author setting for
anyone else. This will, however, mean that your changes will be in the same
color as everyone else's. The alternative would be to change your user name
to get a different color, but if the color you are describing is Teal, then
the next color up is likely Green (the dark one), so that might not be an
improvement.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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llucca

Hi Suzanne: Your answers are always quite complete, so I hope you can help
with this one.... I am using Office 2007 and am trying to use Track Changes.
I have placed my name and initials in the Word Options / Personalize your
copy of Microsoft Office and have Track Changes on.

When modifying, it works, and when hovering I can see my name, the
date/time, and the change/comment. However, when I save the document, it
immediately changes all my comments to Author, and changes the color too.

The Track Changes options are set for "by author". Also, I have changed the
Properties, so the Author will be my name, and upon save, that disappears as
well.

Can you help?
Thanks!
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

This works a little differently in Word 2007, so I may not send you to quite
the right place. In Word 2003, if you check the option for "Remove personal
information from file properties on save" on the Security tab of Tools |
Options, you will get the behavior you describe.

Here is where I get fuzzy. In Word 2007, under Office Button | Prepare |
Inspect Document, there is a setting that may govern this. A setting
identical to the one in Word 2003 is available at Office Button | Word
Options | Trust Center | Trust Center Settings... | Privacy Options (along
with a button to open the Document Inspector), but this option doesn't seem
to be available (the check box is dimmed) in any document I open (maybe it
would be if I had tracked changes?). So I'm confused about what it is
supposed to do.

I know I've seen the answer to this somewhere in these NGs, and with any
luck someone more knowledgeable than I will be able to give you the right
answer.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 

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