User Name for Track Changes

[Guest]

We want everyone in our firm to use By Author for color in Track Changes, is
there a registry setting for this?

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[Jay Freedman]

We want everyone in our firm to use By Author for color in Track Changes, is
there a registry setting for this?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Although that setting is stored in the registry, it's just one part of
a huge binary value that stores many settings (see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DataKeySettings.htm).
There's no reasonable way to isolate that one setting and force it
onto other PCs.

Instead, create an empty template (.dot file) and store this macro in
it (see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm):

Sub AutoExec()
With Dialogs(wdDialogToolsOptionsTrackChanges)
.InsertedTextColor = wdByAuthor
.DeletedTextColor = wdByAuthor
.Execute
End With
End Sub

Using the suggestions at
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DistributeMacros.htm,
distribute the template to all users to be placed in their Startup
folder. Once it's there, the macro will run every time Word starts,
and will reset the options the way you want them.

 

[Guest]

Jay,

Thank you for your help this answers my question.