I suspect that's the problem.  Word X is essentially Word 2001 ported to X,
and Word 2001 is essentially the same as WinWord 2000, and I don't think
WinWord added track change/comment balloons (which I *think* is what you are
talking about until Word 2002.  I believe the new MacWord 2004 does have
them.  

This link will help you find Mac-specific newsgroups:
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups>
Where you can confirm my diagnosis--I'm still in Word 2001 so don't have
balloons and am not very familiar with them.

And I think you need to update your Word, see here for more info:
http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/vxversions.html

Sorry I missed the "windows compatriots" comment in your first post,
probably could have sorted this a while back.

Also you mentioned printing--the doc won't print with the balloons in the
margins as later versions do, but if you check under Word | Preferences |
Printing, there should be some checkboxes to control printing comments,
which should spit them out at the end of the doc (I think).

And just FYI:
A note on the differences between Mac and WinWord:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/Differences.htm
(might need to hit reload a couple times in Safari, sorry).

DM

Best to ask this in a MAC newsgroup. The "word" newsgroups are primarily
populated by WINword users :-)

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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