(In Word for Windows 2013 onwards, you have to click the dialog launcher icon and then go to the Advanced settings. It’s a global setting for all your documents, not a setting for just one document. This is the case even after you close Word and reopen it. It’s easy to change, but be aware that if you change it for one document, the change holds for other documents on your computer. ‘red for stop’), irrespective of who made those changes. ‘green for go’) and another color to show the deletions (e.g.
Instead, you want a single color to show the multiple insertions (e.g. You need to send the document to someone else, but the recipient only needs to see what has changed, not who changed it - in other words, you don’t want all those rainbow colors to show.
The default setting in Word is to track changes by author, which means that your document is like a rainbow with all those different colors - one for each person who made a change! Track changes is on for all these amendments. You have a document that many people have worked on, reviewed, edited, changed etc.