The other day when searching for text in a Word document, I noticed that the
Find function opened the old comments viewing box when it found the text in a
comment. I have Word 2003, which uses the horrid reviewing pane to show
non-bubble comments. Needless to say, I was excited to find that the
comments viewing box is not dead.

My question: Can Word 2003 be set so that I view comments not in the
reviewing pane, but in the comments viewing box of previous versions of Word?
If the Find function can view the comments this way, why can't I?

Many old bits of Word are obscurely available via the UI but I can't see any
way of getting this one.

It is, however, available from VBA using:

ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneComments

So you could create a macro and assign it to a toolbar button if you wanted.

Enjoy,
Tony

"btr" wrote:

The other day when searching for text in a Word document, I noticed that the
Find function opened the old comments viewing box when it found the text in a
comment. I have Word 2003, which uses the horrid reviewing pane to show
non-bubble comments. Needless to say, I was excited to find that the
comments viewing box is not dead.

My question: Can Word 2003 be set so that I view comments not in the
reviewing pane, but in the comments viewing box of previous versions of Word?
If the Find function can view the comments this way, why can't I?

Dy-no-mite! Thanks so much. I've been putting this macro on my coworker's
computers as well. It seems as though no one I work with likes the new
reviewing pane--hint, hint, for all those Microsoft programmers reading.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:


Many old bits of Word are obscurely available via the UI but I can't see any
way of getting this one.

It is, however, available from VBA using:

ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneComments

So you could create a macro and assign it to a toolbar button if you wanted.

Enjoy,
Tony

"btr" wrote:

The other day when searching for text in a Word document, I noticed that the
Find function opened the old comments viewing box when it found the text in a
comment. I have Word 2003, which uses the horrid reviewing pane to show
non-bubble comments. Needless to say, I was excited to find that the
comments viewing box is not dead.

My question: Can Word 2003 be set so that I view comments not in the
reviewing pane, but in the comments viewing box of previous versions of Word?
If the Find function can view the comments this way, why can't I?

Thanks again to Tony for this macro. Wonderful!

On 9/29/05 6:50 AM, "btr" wrote:

Dy-no-mite! Thanks so much. I've been putting this macro on my coworker's
computers as well. It seems as though no one I work with likes the new
reviewing pane--hint, hint, for all those Microsoft programmers reading.

"Tony Jollans" wrote:


Many old bits of Word are obscurely available via the UI but I can't see any
way of getting this one.

It is, however, available from VBA using:

ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneComments

So you could create a macro and assign it to a toolbar button if you wanted.

Enjoy,
Tony

"btr" wrote:

The other day when searching for text in a Word document, I noticed that the
Find function opened the old comments viewing box when it found the text in
a
comment. I have Word 2003, which uses the horrid reviewing pane to show
non-bubble comments. Needless to say, I was excited to find that the
comments viewing box is not dead.

My question: Can Word 2003 be set so that I view comments not in the
reviewing pane, but in the comments viewing box of previous versions of
Word?
If the Find function can view the comments this way, why can't I?