Changing comment balloon colors in Microsoft Word--see details...?

Question

I am editing a document that has 3 or 4 colors of comment balloons. Unfortunately this computer has chosen the same color comment balloon as another computer I use and it's very confusing to tell which comments were added when. I tried going into options and changing the balloon color but it changed all the existing balloons to that color. I need to make my color a different one and NOT affect the existing balloons. Word 2003, Windows Vista. (I already followed the instructions at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word/HP051898291033.aspx; that's what changed all the balloons to one color.)

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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History



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Answer 4

Recently I was reviewing a report in Microsoft Word and adding comments and suggestions. The comment balloons were blue but I wanted to change them to red. It took me a while to figure out how this is done, but it’s easy once you know how.



From the top toolbar in Word, click on Tools -> Options -> Track Changes tab. Then under the Markup section, simply change the Comments color to whatever you desire. See the screen shot below:



screen image of changing the comments balloon color in Word







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16 Comments »



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Thanks a bunch. This was really helpful.

Comment by JayT — May 16, 2008 @ 9:00 am

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hi,

if we so as above, all the comments will be change to the new color. but i need to change some of the comments in to red and some of them to green in the same document.



is there a way to do so.



please let me know if there is an easy way.

waiting for the reply



thanks

Comment by pooh — May 22, 2008 @ 9:36 pm

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thanks. why can’t word help be that straightforward!

Comment by jo — May 27, 2008 @ 1:47 am

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Thank you so much! Not knowing how to change the color was really bugging me.

Comment by Elizabeth — August 8, 2008 @ 2:53 pm

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Thanks. i read Word help and looked at the instructions but didn’t understand it. thanks for making it plain.

Comment by woullard lett — September 28, 2008 @ 6:41 am

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Sorry, I’m afraid it is not possible to change certain comments, only all comments. U may wish to try changing the font or highlighting it. I love word 2007 but its still missing a few features.



P.S. the quick access toolbar can help you speed things up rather than having to click through the ribbons if its something like cropping

Comment by Zte — October 12, 2008 @ 11:03 am

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thanks alot

Comment by Junfa — February 3, 2009 @ 5:15 am

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I’ve been researching the same issue and found that you can actually have different colors when using comments. The feature is available since at times it is possible that different people may review a document and this helps identify reviewers by color…

You’d have to go to Tools/Options/USER INFORMATION, then change anything here, even 1 character will be sufficient. Then go back to Tools/Options/TRACK CHANGES, and here instead of choosing a specific color, choose BY AUTHOR… close out of Word fully, then open it again and go back to your document. Your new comments should be in a totally different color … btw, Word chooses the colors randomly… i’m still researching this to see if there’s a way around the randomness…

Cheers!

Comment by Edgar — March 11, 2009 @ 9:35 am

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Here we go… i found great answers to your question -

the answers were lifted from here in case you want to read the entire article…it’s worth it

:http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/trackchanges/HowTrackChangesWorks.html



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).

Comment by Edgar — March 11, 2009 @ 10:04 am

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Thank you! It was amazing that I could not find the answer in Word 2007. It’s a shame when you can’t get a direct answer from the distributor.

Answer 5

pass to "edit remark" on the border of the field (determine the pointer adjustments to a go immediately) , precise click and pass to "format remark", click on "colorations and strains"