Advanced Track Changes Options in Word for Mac. On the Review tab, click Markup Options > Preferences. In the Track Changes dialog box, you can control how you want markup to appear in your document. For example, to change the formatting that is displayed when someone inserts new text, click an option from the drop. If you know that you want to accept all the changes, click the arrow next to Accept Change, and then click Accept All Changes in Document. If you know that you want to reject all the changes, click the arrow next to Reject Change/Delete Comment, and then click Reject All Changes in Document. To remove all comments, you must delete them.
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When you use the Word 2007 Track Changes feature to monitor who makes additions and deletions in a document, you can customize Word to show these changes in different ways. Take advantage of how you can adjust tracked changes to make your document easier to navigate and edit.
Here’s how to view — and change — how Word 2007 marks tracked changes. You can change the formatting of how insertions, deletions, and moved text look.
1On the Review tab of the Ribbon, in the Tracking group, click the down arrow of the Track Changes button to open the Track Changes menu.
Open the Track Changes Options dialog box from here.
2Choose the Change Track Options menu item.
The Track Changes Options dialog box opens.
3Make your preference settings from the options here.
You can change the color assignments per author, as well as use of underlining, strikethrough, text color, bold, italic, and other formatting choices for how insertions, deletions, and moved text look.
In this article, there are 4 easy tips for you to change the color of comment balloons or texts in your Word document.
By and large, the color of comment balloons in document is randomly assigned by Word according to the editing author. Similarly, the comment text color is by default set in black. Nevertheless, we still can apply some tricks to change the default color.
Tip 1: Apply Custom Color for Comment Balloons
It’s a popular knowledge that Word distributes color to comment balloons at random. However, in case you just hate one specific color, you are free to change it.
- At first, open the Word document which you need to change the comment balloon color.
- Then click “Track Changes” under “Review” tab.
- On the drop-down menu, choose “Change Tracking Options” to open the “Track Changes Options” dialog box.
- Now go to choose a color you like for the comment and click “OK” to have it work. You will find all comment balloons in current document are now in the same color.
Tip 2: Make Comment Balloon Color Differs from Authors
Basically, each comment maker gets his or her own color for the balloon. Considerate feature! Even so, if you accidentally alter the setting, things can get different. Here are steps to help you get the feature back.
- Repeat the first 3 steps in tip 1 to open the “Track Changes Options” dialog box.
- Choose “By author” for “Comments”.
- Click “OK”.
Tip 3: Employ Multiple Colors for Comment Balloons of the Same Author
Word assigns colors for different authors by their initials, so we can take use of this feature to have multiple colors for comment balloons of the same author.
- Before inserting a new comment with different color, conduct the 3 steps in tip 2 first.
- Click “Track Changes” under “Review” tab again.
- Then choose “Change Use Name”.
- Now there is the “Word Options” dialog box. Change the user name a little, such as adding numbers behind, and ensure the initials stay the same.
- Click “OK”.
Tip 4: Batch Change the Comment Text Color
To change the text color of one comment is quite simple, but here is our way to help you do it in batches.
- First off, press “Alt+ F11” to open the VBA editor quickly.
- Next click “Normal” then “Insert”.
- Choose “Module”.
- Double click module to open the code area.
- Then paste these codes there:
- Click “Run” button.
Among them, codes “objComment.Range.Font.Color = wdColorDarkRed” means to set comment texts in dark red. For more color codes, you can visit https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa195614(v=office.11).aspx
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