Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 2007 and 2010. If you are using an earlier version (Word 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Word, click here: Turning Off Comment Color when Printing.
Penny has a document that has some comments within it; on some pages there are quite a few comments. She also has a color printer, so when she prints the document, the comments are printed in color. She would rather that the comments did not print in color, as printing them in color is rather expensive. Penny wonders if there is a way to turn off the color of the comments when they are printed.
The approach you take depends on whether there are other color items in your document that you do want printed. If there are not, then the best solution is to look to the printer itself for the answer. Most modern printers have some way to turn the color off, meaning that the document is printed in gray scale instead of color. There may be a control on the printer itself or you can click Properties to the right of the printer name in the Print dialog box to find a control there.
If you can't find such a setting for your printer, then you can instruct Word to try printing in black and white. Follow these steps:
Another approach is to try changing the actual color used in the comments. This may take some experimenting, as the results will depend on your printer and its capabilities. Follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Track Changes Options dialog box.
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2017-02-10 06:21:15
David
Thank you very much for the great tip about the setting "Print Colors as Black on Noncolor Printers".
Unfortunately, while this works with other printers, our Toshiba color laser printer does not obey that setting, even when the printer is set to "print in black and white".
This means that the Word comment boxes/balloons, unfortunately, are still printed with a gray background. However, we'd rather have the comment boxes with white background (or with no background, for that matter).
Is there anything more we could do to achieve this?
Thank you again,
David
2015-06-24 05:24:58
Gabriela Romanini Gibowski
The tip above, unfortunately, did not work on my case.
When I followed the instructions given it make the whole box white on my screen but it prints black and as the fonts are still in black color I am not able to read it.
Also changing the comments color to white gets rid of the tracking line color. So it is harder to identify where on your template that comments is being linked to.
I have been trying to find where I could get the font white with the comment background black or vice versa to print it in non color. At the moment all I get, regardless any tip are full black balloons.
Any other way I could try?
Many thanks!
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