Here's an excellent article:
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html

Just search for author

True, an excellent article!  Confirms many of our staff's suspicions about the inefficacy of this Office "feature."  Sadly, there is no mention of appending author/reviewer initials at the end of each tracked change.  It seems odd that Word 2000 would be able to do that, and Word 2002 can't.  Well, now that I think about it, maybe not too strange...

If you lay your cursor onto of an author's changes, a little pop up will show up telling you who the changes are from.

:)

Oh but it does:
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Working with more than one author or reviewer: Who did what?
 Tip: Terminology trap!

Once upon a time, Microsoft invented "Track Changes". "Authors" put "changes" into their documents.

More recently, "Reviewers" make "revisions" to their documents. And "revisions" are one kind of "markup".

So, in Word 2002 and 2003, you display the work of a "Reviewer", but you may do so by choosing the colour "By Author".

 Q: How do I see which changes were made by which author (also known as a reviewer)?
If several authors have reviewed the document while Track Changes was on, then you can identify the author (or reviewer) in several ways:

Hover the mouse over the tracked change. A balloon will appear that shows you the name of the author.
On the Reviewing toolbar, click the Reviewing Pane button. You can now see a pane at the bottom of the screen that identifies the author of each change.
In Word 2002 and Word 2003, if you are using balloons to display tracked changes, hover the mouse over the balloon.
Q: How do I display each author's changes in a different colour?
Tools > Options. Click the Track Changes tab. In any of the Color boxes, choose "By Author".

Q: How does Word choose which colour to allocate to which author?
You can choose to display tracked changed in any of 16 colours. But if you want Word to display different reviewers' revisions in different colours (that is, if you choose to display using the "By Author" color), then Word only provides 8 colours with which to distinguish authors.

In theory, Word allocates colours to reviewers in the following order: red, blue, green, violet, dark red, teal, dark yellow and grey. For the 9th and subsequent reviewers of a document, Word cycles through the colours again. But in practice, as reviewers come and go (as their revisions are accepted or rejected), the allocation of colours to reviewers ends up, in effect, random.

You can test this out by changing the user's name at Tools > Options > User Information, turning on tracked changes and making some changes to your document.

Q: Can I allocate a specific colour to each author?
No. Word allocates colours to authors (who are also called reviewers).

Q: If Fred's revisions are shown in red on my machine, will they also be red on someone else's machine?
Maybe, maybe not. Don't rely on any one author's revisions being displayed in a particular colour from day to day, or from machine to machine. Word likes to be creative, and you can't control its creative urges!

Q: Where does Word get the author's name from?
Word attributes a tracked change to the name of the author specified at Tools > Options > User Information.

Q: How do I display only the changes (or revisions) made by one author (or reviewer)?
In Word 2002 or 2003, on the Reviewing toolbar, Show > Reviewers, and tick or un-tick names to choose the reviewer whose changes you want to see.

There is no equivalent functionality in earlier versions of Word.

JOrzech,

I did see all of that, which deals with: 1) mouse-overs; 2) color-by-author; 3) displaying only certain authors' changes.

Specifically, I was looking for information on how to have an author's initials actually appear in-text alongside each change made by that author, so even when the document is printed on a b/w printer it is obvious who made what changes.

Oops!  I think it was my optimism that got me carried away when I saw initials in someone's Word doc tracking.  Turns out the user had typed those in himself so that he could tell whose changes were whose.

However, a co-worker had a great suggestion for documents that are going to be forwarded electronically and edited by mutliple people with Edit Tracking turned on.  Obviously, you can't call one of these people and say, "My changes are the red ones" -- because on their computer your changes could be green.  And when the document is printed, no one can tell whose changes are the green ones, or the purple ones, or the red ones.  So... when you sit down to review the document, the first "edit" you make is to type your name onto the first page or into the header.  That way, your name -- and all of your edits -- will be the same color, no matter who opens the document and reads it.  Basically, all the reviewers type their names into the same area of the document when they review it, and this creates a "Color/Name Legend" for the document.  And when it's printed on a color printer, by anyone anywhere, the legend is right there for everyone to see, and it doesn't matter that the colors get changed around.

Thanks for the Shauna Kelly link.  But JOrzech, I'll accept your last post as the answer, since I believe that is correct -- there is no way to automatically generate in-text reviewer initials in Word.

WOW.  That's a great idea!!

Thanks much!