Re: [libreoffice-users] Change colours for authors in recording changes

At 09:12 31/03/2013 +0100, John Talbut wrote:
> How can the colour used to indicate changes by a particular author 
> (i.e. when "By Author" is being used for the colour)?

You enquiry sentence appears to lack a main verb!  Do you perhaps 
mean "... be selected"?

I don't think they can.  The help text says the colour is 
"automatically determined ..., then modified to match to the author 
of each change."

The colours chosen appear to be chosen according to the settings in 
the current user's options, and not inherited from the corresponding 
options set by other users.  So you can always see the difference 
between changes made by different authors, even if those authors did 
not select "By author", but you cannot control those colours - or, I 
think, rely on their being the same colours as seen by those other 
authors.  In other words, what is preserved in the document is merely 
the name of the author of each change, not any colours - which are 
then determined by the options for the current user.

You may like to experiment to confirm that this is true for your arrangements.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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