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Track changes by author - color

I have an end user who is trying to track changes by author. She states that her changes are showing up in the same color as another authors and that she is unable to change the font using the fontcolor box. She has gone into Markup toolbar > Show > Options and tried to change the color in there, but it changed the other author's color as well.

I have a feeling that the other author may be using the same PC, thus Word thinks it's the same author. Is there any other way to separate the two? Maybe color by date, or something along those lines?

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ShdwWlf1065

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Thank you for pointing out the Name setting - I was unaware of that. I'll look into it first thing in the morning. Thank you for responding :)

EphesiansSix

Scott has offered ways to prevent it from happening, but sometimes it happens anyway, even when different users are recognized by Word.

IF Word recognizes different users but insists on displaying them as the same color (probably a bug) a workaround is to use the following: (Reviewing Toolbar) --> Show --> Reviewers and deselect all but the user you are trying to track (User A). If you want to approve all the comments made by the other user (User B), you could show only his/her changes, then "Accept All Changes Shown" from the pulldown for the accept changes button.

Another more tedious workaround is to use the Reviewing Pane, where you can see the names listed along with each change.