A lot of my job is developing detailed specifications for screens and reports that may get changed many times by many different people. We use Track Changes, and I find it convenient to use the [By Author] option. (Available from Tools > Options and the [Track Changes] tab.
One trouble. Depending on the first document I open during a working day, I might get red, blue, green, grey etc. Short of restarting the machine, I can’t alter this.
For updating a specification, it is convenient to use red, but for printing on an old monochrome printer it would be better to use blue. I can get this changing the settings to use blue for everything, but then it loses the distinction between my work and anyone else’s.
I've done a search (using color as well as colour and found similar questions (including one of my own from 2006) but no real answer.
Is there a fix? Please let me know.
(I realise that fast colour printer would be better, and maybe a more advanced Word would have the problem fixed. But I don’t control purchasing, we have colour printers but decidedly slow and it’s probably cost-justified. And several hundred employees need to use much the same software to let us work together smoothly.)
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Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Crystal 2008 with SQL and Windows XP
One trouble. Depending on the first document I open during a working day, I might get red, blue, green, grey etc. Short of restarting the machine, I can’t alter this.
For updating a specification, it is convenient to use red, but for printing on an old monochrome printer it would be better to use blue. I can get this changing the settings to use blue for everything, but then it loses the distinction between my work and anyone else’s.
I've done a search (using color as well as colour and found similar questions (including one of my own from 2006) but no real answer.
Is there a fix? Please let me know.
(I realise that fast colour printer would be better, and maybe a more advanced Word would have the problem fixed. But I don’t control purchasing, we have colour printers but decidedly slow and it’s probably cost-justified. And several hundred employees need to use much the same software to let us work together smoothly.)
Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Crystal 2008 with SQL and Windows XP 
