Re: Making comments stand out

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Track Changes is what you want. In Word 2002 and above, comments and
deletions appear in "balloons" in the margin (in the color you choose),
while insertions are in the text but formatted as you choose (the default
formatting is underlining, in the color you choose). As grammatim suggests,
sending the edited document as a PDF would ensure that the writer would see
the markup as you intend it.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"RadicalMGC" <RadicalMGC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:777C51AF-4625-4686-A896-044D520555FF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I am a copy editor. I want to be able to make corrections and comments on
a
writer's document and then send it back to him so he can see what I've
suggested. To make it easier for him to see, I'd like the comments and
changes to stand out from the original text, either by coloring it or
doing
something else. I know I can do it one element at a time by selecting the
phrase and making the change, but I would expect there to be a better,
more
efficient way. Perhaps there's a setting in Preferences that will allow
me
to enter EVERYTHING in a different color AUTOMATICALLY. I'd even accept
an
additional piece of software if that would do the job. Any thoughts?



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