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Jonas - 05 Feb 2004 01:41 GMT

I just reinstalled word, and found to my dismay that I've
been allocated the color grey as the color of all my
default changes. This is a particularly useless color, and
I need to change it. But I can't figure out how.

Any ideas?

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loki - 05 Feb 2004 03:49 GMT

go into tools and options, you should be able to make all
changes to the author correction colors in there.

hope this helped you out.

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Jonas - 05 Feb 2004 19:54 GMT

No, that doesn't work. In options - track changes, you can
set it so that ALL changes are of one particular color,
but you can't change the color of just one author.

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Word Heretic - 06 Feb 2004 02:20 GMT

G'day "Jonas" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>,

you need macro to highlight the ranges in different colors

Steve Hudson
Word Heretic Sydney Australia
Tricky stuff with Word or words

Email: WordHeretic at tpg.com.au

Jonas was spinning this yarn:

>No, that doesn't work. In options - track changes, you can
>set it so that ALL changes are of one particular color,
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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 06 Feb 2004 10:54 GMT

Hi Jonas,

> I just reinstalled word, and found to my dismay that I've
> been allocated the color grey as the color of all my
> default changes. This is a particularly useless color, and
> I need to change it. But I can't figure out how.

there isn't really any way, except something that resembles
going to Las Vegas. IOW, it's a lottery...

You might try going into Tools/OPtions/User Info and changing
your name and initials. Make a couple of changes in a dummy
doc. Now change it back to what you had before. With any
luck, Word will cycle colors. Or, you may just need to live
with a changed name, or the gray, until Word decides on its
own to cycle the colors again. (Which it will certainly do
when you least want it to!)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep
30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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