How can I make sure every word typed is in red instead of doing this after typing all the texts:

It just changes all the words into red words.

Hi tinfanide,

A quick & easy solution would be to activate change-tracking, then de-eactivate it when you're done.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Your suggestion is a nifty one, quick and easy.
But I did a bit of experiment because I think there should be something to do with the Normal template.

I go to the Normal.dotm in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Templates
and
Go to Font
and
Change the All text Font Color to red
and
Save

When I open a new document or any other old documents, the font is red. But I don't know why

when I edit an old document (an exception), even if I attach the Normal template to the document, it is still the automatic black colour. If you are interested, please take a look at the attached documents.

In the zip files, you can change the template path in test.docx to the attached Normal.dotm path.

Thank you.

Attached Files

test.zip (55.1 KB, 8 views)

Hi tinfanide,

Changing the font colour in the template won't affect any existing documents unless they're configured with the 'automatically update document styles' option (Developer|Document Template|Templates).

Of course, if you change the font colour in the template, all new documents based on that template (but not documents based on a different template) will be affected.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Yes, I know.
But the point is my existing document, where "automatically update document styles" is checked, is not based on the Normal template.

I can't comment on that - the only document you've attached to this thread is one that is based on the Normal template.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Just can't figure out why the attached one does not update the change made in my Normal template in my computer.