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MS Office Forum / Word / Menus and Toolbars / May 2004Comment balloons in Word 2003
Since upgrading from Office XP to Office 2003, I have noted a difference in the behavior in the comment balloons when I "Insert Comment". Comment balloons inserted into documents in Word (Office XP) were attached to the text via a dotted line running from the balloon to an insertion point within the sentence. In Word for Office 2003, the dotted line is attached to a pair of brackets with colored highlighting of the word in the sentence located immediately before the comment. This makes no sense and I don't like that words within the sentence are now being highlighted. How can I turn this off so that the comment feature works similarly to prior versions of Word. All I want is an insertion point that is connected by a dotted line to a comment balloon. *Many* users complained that the brackets were difficult to see (and truly invisible if a comment was inserted at a point rather than applied to selected text). There seemed to be universal demand for having the text highlighted as it had been in previous versions. What you might try is this: instead of selecting text or *not* selecting text (which has the result you describe), select a single space at the point where you want the comment inserted. The result is that the space has color highlighting, but no words do; you can also experiment with different colors for the comments (this color can be set independently of the other markup). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Since upgrading from Office XP to Office 2003, I have > noted a difference in the behavior in the comment [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > an insertion point that is connected by a dotted line to > a comment balloon. Hi Suzanne, > What you might try is this: > instead of selecting text or *not* selecting text (which has the result you > describe), select a single space at the point where you want the comment > inserted. The result is that the space has color highlighting, but no words > do; And then one can simply delete the space (IP in front of the space, press DEL). The comment remains as it appeared in Word 2002. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Ah, good to know. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Hi Suzanne, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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