What determines the color used for Track Changes annotations for each reviewer?

• A. By a color assigned to each author based on their user name.
• B. By author name alone.
• C. Colors depend on the font color of the text.
• D. Colors are assigned randomly.

Answer: (A)

The color used for Track Changes marks is tied to the reviewer’s identity. Each author has a color assigned to them based on their user name, and that same color is used for all of that person’s edits and comments across the document. It isn’t determined by the text’s font color, and it isn’t chosen at random. Because the mapping uses the author name as the key, changing your user name can change the color shown for your future edits. If you want to see or adjust this, Word gets its identity from your User name and Initials in Options, General.