Varying track changes colours

[Derek]

Hi,

I'm using Word 2000 with track changes enabled. Several authors made
some initial revisions to a document. We now want to make further
changes while keeping the initial changes as tracked changes (rather
than accepting them first). However, we also want to be able to
differentiate the latter changes from the initial ones. Can track
changes be used for this? The only way of having different colours
seems to be by author. This wouldn't work because the authors in the
first and second lot of changes will be the same. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Derek

 

[Margaret Aldis]

You can't control the colours for authors, nor separate out the new changes.
If you have control over the authors, a kludgey workaround would be to have
them change their Word user names temporarily - add a "2nd draft" suffix to
each, for instance.

If you don't have control over the authors, you might be able to use Compare
documents (changing your own user name each time) to build up separate sets
of tracked changes.