Re: Word Text Color

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You have exactly two choices:

1. Use Track Changes. Do _not_ accept the changes. Just leave them there.
["Doctor, it hurts when I move like this." "So, don't move like this."]

-OR-

2. Don't use Track Changes. Apply the blue color to each answer, as you
described. This can be made a little quicker by defining a style for the
answers and including the blue color as part of the style; you can assign a
keyboard shortcut to apply the style. If the answers will be on the same
line with the questions, the style will have to be a "character style" (this
is a choice in the New Style dialog).

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Bentley26 wrote:
Track changes seems to work fine up until i accept all the changes
then my writing turns back to black. and i want it to stay blue ink.
what i am trying to accomplish is as follows:
i have a word document that is a questionierre and has a ton of
questions on it in black ink. i want to make all my answers blue so
that i can tell where the question ends and where my respons begins.
for example i have the following in a word document:

Questioniere on Cookies
Question 1. Do you like chocolate chip cookies? If so why?

Question 2. Do you like penut butter cookies? If so why?

end of word document.

I would like to go down the questions and fill in my answers blue.
however the only way i can figure out how to do this is select each
anser that i filled in and change the ink to blue. i want to open
the questionier and have everything i fill in be blue without having
to change the ink color for every single question.

Sorry my question is very basic but is so confusing to try to explain
in writing. Thanks for alll your help so far. i appreciate your time.
"Jay Freedman" wrote:

Yes, that's the way Track Changes works. What would you do
differently?

Bentley26 wrote:
that works fine in the begining and then once i accept all changes
it goes back to black.

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

You can use the Track Changes feature
(http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html)
to get this effect. Set insertions to Color Only and blue, and set
deletions to Hidden.

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Jay Freedman
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Bentley26 wrote:
I have a word document that has about 5 pages of black writing on
it. I would like to open the document and have everything from
this point forward be Blue text. Is this possible? i can change
the color to blue and start writing, however when i stop writing
and go to the next paragraph to type some more it changes back to
black.


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