Advanced Change Tracking Options Dialog Box

• Open the change tracking dialog box automatically sets whether to automatically open the Change Tracking dialog box when change tracking is enabled. This is a preference setting retained across Arbortext Editor sessions.

• Expand ancestor elements to show the change sets whether to automatically expand collapsed elements if your search finds a tracked change within it. This is a preference setting retained across Arbortext Editor sessions.

• Highlight the changed region sets whether to highlight a tracked change from your search by giving it a background color to make it more visible. This background is in addition to the user font color assigned to additions and deletions. This is a preference setting retained across Arbortext Editor sessions.

• Display with user specific colors sets whether to display, print, and publish proposed changes with user-specific color. This box is cleared by default. When checked, additions are still underlined, and deletions are still shown as strikethrough characters. This is a setting that is retained with the document.

• You can further define Document Options to control the appearance of changes for a specific user by changing the Full Name and user Color.

Highlight the user in the list and click Change to open User Change Tracking Options. You can change the values for Full Name and User Color.

By default, the color assigned to a specific user's proposed changes is determined by:

◦ the user's color preference set in the User Information preferences dialog box.

◦ whether that color preference conflicts with a color already assigned to another user in the document.

In the event of a conflict, Arbortext Editor will attempt to generate a different color that makes multiple user colors distinguishable.

If your preferred color is too light or too similar to another user’s color, Arbortext Editor will assign a different color to make multiple user colors distinguishable. The color palette has 10 distinct choices, and Arbortext Editor will attempt to use all of them for the first 10 authors without a suitable color already assigned.

If you change a user color in User Change Tracking Options, including your own, you are only changing the user color for changes tracked in this document. It does not change user color preference nor does it assign that color to a user's changes in a different document.

Regardless of the color actually assigned, you can change the color for any author by clicking Advanced in Change Tracking and choosing another color in Advanced Change Tracking Options.