I just started to use Word 2003 after using 2000 for a long time.

I am having a lot of problems with the comments.

How can I get the comments to look and work in the same way that they did in
2000?

That is, I don't want the colored ribbons separating each comment. I just
want the comments listed plainly--for example, so that I can change the font
size of all the comments before printing them. They now seem to be stuck in a
default 10 font size and that is too small for me.

I really don't understand how the comments in 2003 work and find the help
sections very unhelpful.
--
Phyllis

You can change the Comment Text style.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

"pbirn" wrote in message
...
I just started to use Word 2003 after using 2000 for a long time.

I am having a lot of problems with the comments.

How can I get the comments to look and work in the same way that they did
in
2000?

That is, I don't want the colored ribbons separating each comment. I just
want the comments listed plainly--for example, so that I can change the
font
size of all the comments before printing them. They now seem to be stuck
in a
default 10 font size and that is too small for me.

I really don't understand how the comments in 2003 work and find the help
sections very unhelpful.
--
Phyllis

I want to be able to change the style *after* I write the comments. (I print
out the comments and want the type large when I do that.)

I believe that changing the Comment Text would only help if I wanted to
change the style before I started writing the comments. Isn't this true?

But since I wrote, I discovered another strange thing about the comments

I have been unable to Search in the comments. Even if I place the cursor in
the comments pane, I am unable to search.

However, I tried searching for a Comment word in my regular text, hoping
that it would make its way to the Comments section. After many attempts
(some a failure), I finally did get to search in the Comments. In doing
this, the appearance of the Comments changed into just the format that I had
in Word 2000. The red ribbons were gone and I was left with plain Comments
text, which I could format as I liked. Do you know what I did to get this to
happen? Because I would like to do it again

I hope that this is clear.

Phyllis


--
Phyllis


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You can change the Comment Text style.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words 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.

"pbirn" wrote in message
...
I just started to use Word 2003 after using 2000 for a long time.

I am having a lot of problems with the comments.

How can I get the comments to look and work in the same way that they did
in
2000?

That is, I don't want the colored ribbons separating each comment. I just
want the comments listed plainly--for example, so that I can change the
font
size of all the comments before printing them. They now seem to be stuck
in a
default 10 font size and that is too small for me.

I really don't understand how the comments in 2003 work and find the help
sections very unhelpful.
--
Phyllis

No, when you modify a style, the change is immediately applied to all
paragraphs in that style. In this case, it's a little more complicated,
however, as the actual font size depends not just on the Comment Text style
but also on the Balloon Text style.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words 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.

"pbirn" wrote in message
...
I want to be able to change the style *after* I write the comments. (I
print
out the comments and want the type large when I do that.)

I believe that changing the Comment Text would only help if I wanted to
change the style before I started writing the comments. Isn't this true?

But since I wrote, I discovered another strange thing about the comments

I have been unable to Search in the comments. Even if I place the cursor
in
the comments pane, I am unable to search.

However, I tried searching for a Comment word in my regular text, hoping
that it would make its way to the Comments section. After many attempts
(some a failure), I finally did get to search in the Comments. In doing
this, the appearance of the Comments changed into just the format that I
had
in Word 2000. The red ribbons were gone and I was left with plain
Comments
text, which I could format as I liked. Do you know what I did to get this
to
happen? Because I would like to do it again

I hope that this is clear.

Phyllis


--
Phyllis


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

You can change the Comment Text style.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words 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.

"pbirn" wrote in message
...
I just started to use Word 2003 after using 2000 for a long time.

I am having a lot of problems with the comments.

How can I get the comments to look and work in the same way that they
did
in
2000?

That is, I don't want the colored ribbons separating each comment. I
just
want the comments listed plainly--for example, so that I can change
the
font
size of all the comments before printing them. They now seem to be
stuck
in a
default 10 font size and that is too small for me.

I really don't understand how the comments in 2003 work and find the
help
sections very unhelpful.
--
Phyllis