Is there a way to change a setting in MSWord so that whenever I type text into a document, even if I’m inserting the text between two black letters, my text will nevertheless come up red?
I already know how to change the font color, of course. But as things stand, whenever I want to make my text red, I have to hit the font change button before beginning to type. If I’m doing something that requires me to do alot of inserting of red text into black text, I would llke to not have to hit this button everytime, but instead, I would like it just to be red automatically when I start typing.
As you rpoabbly realize, that was probably not on the list of Top 5 user requested enhancements the last time Microsoft released a new version of Word. That said, Word has a programming environment that lets you do damn near anything you please if you you are willing to code it. You can record a Macro or make VBA code that allows you to set the font color via a keyboard shorcut without too much problem. You could make it do exactly as you say as well but I wouldn’t recommend that because I doubt you want red every single time you insert something.
You could set up a font style and make a button for that style. Or you could type in Track Changes mode, and specify red (which I think is usually the default for the first round of changes).
The easiest way would be to change the default font style, “Normal”, to a red color.
To do so, go to Format and then Styles and Formatting. The Styles and Formatting sidebar should pop up to the right. Right click on the style Normal in the list and select Modify. Make the font color red and press OK. Now all text in the document will be red unless you specifically make it otherwise.
But the color between two black letters would revert to black because Word assumes you want to keep the style you’re inserting between.
“Track Changes” (Cntrl-Shft-E) makes any new typing red and underlined but this doesn’t show on the “Final” version.