

VBA code: Change the color of the comment text in Word: Sub ChangeCommentsColor()įor Each xComm In ActiveDocument.Comments To highlight text in a color different than yellow, click on the highlighter buttons dropdown arrow: this will open a menu that displays a palette of colors. In the Ribbon, on the Home tab, click the downward-pointing arrow next for the Text.

Using your mouse, select the text by pressing and holding the left mouse button, then drag the mouse to the left or right to select the text.
#HOW TO CHANGE HIGHLIGHT COLORS IN WORD CODE#
And then, click Insert > Module, copy and paste below code into the opened blank module: Open the Microsoft PowerPoint slide deck where you want to highlight text with color. Showing the Properties Toolbar To show the Properties Toolbar, try one of the following: Right-click in a free area the Acrobat toolbar and choose Properties Bar View>Toolbars> Properties Bar Use a keyboard command WIN: Ctrl-E MAC: CMD-E. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.Ģ. Read on to learn about using the Properties Bar to quickly change text highlight colors. The highlight is now removed from the text. Next, click the Text Highlight Color icon in the Font group of the Home tab and then select No Color from the drop-down menu. If you need to change the font color of the comment text, the following VBA code can do you a favor.ġ. If your Word document contains a lot of highlighted text and you want to remove all of the highlights, you can press Ctrl+A to select all of the text in the document. Then, click OK > OK to exist the dialogs, and now, the color of the comment balloons has been changed to your specified setting, see screenshot:

And then, in the Advanced Track Change Options dialog box, choose one color you like from the Comment drop down list, see screenshot:Ĥ. In the Track Change Options dialog box, click Advanced Options button, see screenshot:ģ. Click Review > Change Tracking Options launcher, see screenshot:Ģ. For example we can type in the Hex Color Value CC00CC, which is Red 204 Green None and Blue 204. All that is left to do is type the Hex Color Value in the Hex box. The Change Tracking Options feature can help you to change the comment balloons color as you need, please do as this:ġ. Once we select the More Colors command, the Colors dialog box appears where we select the Custom tab as shown below. Have you ever tried to change color of the comment balloons or comment text contents in a Word document? This article, I will talk about some method for dealing with this task in Word file.Ĭhange the color of the comment balloons with Change Tracking Options featureĬhange the color of the comment text contents with VBA code
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How to change comment color in Word document?
