That may have been a reference to insertions/deletions rather than comments.
In fact, what we were told about the balloons, however, was that publishing
companies asked for a markup method that would not distort the page (which
could contain carefully placed graphic elements); pulling deletions (or
insertions, depending on view) out into the margin met this need (and was
more like what users were used to seeing from copy editors).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"John Fenton" jcfenton at verizon dot net wrote in message
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Suzanne,
I'm not sure where I saw it last week while searching to see if Word
offered this capability and I read (somewhere on MS website in the office
section, maybe) that the thinking was that entire inline comments
disrupted the flow of the thought process involved in the document so MS
made the inline comments available as a popup bubble when hovered or as a
side balloon. Unfortunately, as I said, there are some very good reasons
for showing the entire comment inline but we don't get that option with
Word. I'm not sure that Word ever offered it but many other word
processors do.
Jay,
Thanks for the tips. By default Ctrl Shft H gives you hidden text.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Did Word ever display *comments* inline? I thought they were always
displayed only in ScreenTips and the Comments pane.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"John Fenton" jcfenton at verizon dot net wrote in message
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Thanks Jay.
It is very unfortunate that MS has decided that what once was the
standard behavior is now no longer even possible. There are many good
reasons to still allow the inline comment to show the entire comment
WHEN you need a commented document and not show at all for the official
document. The way comments print now forces your entire document to
become microscopic when printed in order to cram the big stupid balloons
onto the page.
For a company that believes in providing as many was as possible to do
the same thing, this is one they missed the boat on and forces the end
user to have to become a scripter just to get everyday work done. My
end users don't want to become programmers, they just want to be able to
get their work done.
For anyone interested in a solution albeit kludgy and unfortunate, we
are using the hidden text feature available in the FONT properties.
I'm not a programmer by trade but if anyone can give me a few clues
where to start in reprogramming the COMMENT feature of Word 2007, I'll
take a shot at fixing Word so it's not locked down like a cell phone.
Jay, if you have any contacts, please pass the word back to MS that
inline comments need to have some options added back in apparently
removed by the formatting police.
Thank you again for confirming what I suspected.
I need to be able to create comments that will print inline completely
and
not just my initials. I cannot find anything in the options or the
help
files that tell me how to do this. Currently, the only way to actually
print the comments is as balloons off to the side and I need them
inline.
Thanks for your help and time!
John
For this requirement, you can't use Words built-in Comments feature --
it just
doesn't work that way.
Define a character style, including some formatting (color, background,
etc.)
that will distinguish it from regular text. To make an "inline
comment", just
type the comment in place and then apply the character style to it (you
can
define a keyboard shortcut or toolbar button to apply the style). If
you want to
include your initials, a time stamp, or anything else, you'll have to
type that
as well.
If this is something you expect to do a lot, a macro could make it a
one-click
operation.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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