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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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To add to what g-n-o has said, the difference in what you see in varying
documents may depend on the view in which the students saved them. In Normal
view, you will never see balloons, always see corrections inline (whether
balloons are enabled or not), and will see ScreenTips if they are enabled.

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"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote in
message ...
To enable ToolTips, click on Tools | Options | View tab | check
the "ScreenTips" box | OK. You can select "Final Showing Markup"
view from the Reviewing toolbar, which you can display by
clicking on View | Toolbars | Reviewing.

jennae wrote:

Thank you for your quick response. I made the changes on the Track

Changes
tab. This brought me to a familiar view....highlighted text with comment
markers [ja1], [ja2]....visible. However, when I place my cursor over

the
text, no balloon pops up with my comments.

You stated, "As explained in Word help, if you hide balloons (Never

option),
both insertions and deletions will be shown in the body of the

document." I
think this is what I am seeing.

But, I have not been able to locate the "ToolTips" function as you

stated:
"and comments will be displayed in ToolTips." I sought out ToolTips with

the
Help function and it was not giving me what I sought.

Regarding your comment: "Formatting changes will be visible when you

view
your document in Final or Final Showing Markup mode", I only see

"Markup" on
the View pull down menu and it seems to be a turn off or on function. I

was
not able to locate "Final" or "Final Showing Markup".

I apologize for being dense and do appreciate your help.

Regards,

jennae