Some people misunderstand and think that these color settings affect only those changes done by the current author. Make sure that all the Color settings (with the exception of the color setting for the change bars) are set to 'By Author.' If these settings are for a specific color, then it can affect how changes are displayed in the document. The Track Changes tab of the Options dialog box. (On the other machines, the colors should display differently for each editor.) On the machine (or machines) where the colors all appear the same, display the Track Changes tab of the Options dialog box by choosing Tools | Options | Track Changes. Odds are good that it won't, and that it will only be limited to one or two machines. The first thing to check out is if this problem occurs on a number of different machines. The highlighting colour and the cursor colour are blending in making it hard to find the cursor.

The document was saved and closed, but when it was opened up again, all the reviewer changes appeared in a single color the changes from both reviewers were there, but they looked as if they had been done by a single reviewer. During this second revision, each reviewer's changes showed up in a separate color, as they should. The second reviewer, using Word 2003, revised the same document, again with Track Changes turned on. Upon receiving the document it showed the markups for the first reviewer, who used Word 2000. The document was revised using Track Changes. Cheri has a document that is behaving oddly.

Different highlight colors in word