How To Change Color Of Comments In Word
When I enter a comment in a document by clicking Review -> Comments -> New Comment in MS Word 2010, word allows me to enter a comment. However, I am not able to change the background color of the comment box.
Is there a way by which background color of the comment box can be changed in MS Word?
- Change page background color in Word 2013/2016. Step 1: Launch Word 2013 program. Step 2: Navigate to Design tab first and then click on Page Color box located located upper right corner of the window to select an available color and set it as background color for your current page. To select a custom color, click More Colors option.
- The comments in your document will be updated to reflect the changes automatically. Older versions: To change the Comments’ font style in Microsoft Word, use the steps below: 1. Click the Format menu. Click Styles and Formatting. At the bottom of the Formatting sidebar is a dropdown box. Select custom for this dropdown.
Change the Name and Initials That Appear in Word 2010 Comments. Step 3: Click Options in the column at the left side of the window. Step 4: Click inside the User Name field and enter your preferred name, then click inside the Initials field and enter the initials that you want to display. Step 5: Click the OK button at the bottom of the window to save your changes.
I am asking this because, I am writing a VBA code to read all the comments inserted in a document. I also want to get information about the background color of the comment box. So, if it can be done using tools provided in the ribbon, it can be done through VBA as well. With this notion in mind, I am asking this.
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3 Answers
As Ahmad indicated, you can change the color of a comment by having the comment have a different author.
You can access all of the comments via ActiveDocument.Comments.
Something like the following:
Would change the author of every comment, and each comment would have a different color.
How To Change Color Of Review Comments In Word
That being said, you should be able to read all comments and figure out if the colors are the same by tracking the author of the comment. However, there does not appear to be any practical way to update the color of the comment via code or even know the actual comment color.
I noticed that in Word, comments background color can't be decided by you, but they can be changed randomly (at least to me) by changing the username of the current user.
For example, I originally had all my comments in pink boxes. Until I executed this
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and yet my new comments were added into a another shade of pink. Look at the attached screenshot. These comments appear in three different colors, but they all were added by me under different usernames.
So what you can do is look for comments written by different Reviewers since each reveiwer is essentially a username.
Go to Review-> Track Changes Option and it will give you (the author) a chance to change the color of your comments so you can change it to a different color than red and blue