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How to re-show disappeared balloon comments
Word 2002/XP...
I have a large document (~7MB) with ~4000 comments shown in balloons in page layout mode. Word occasionally seems to think there are no "tracked changes" (it isn't on) - and no comments... so all the balloons disappear. The problem gets fixed into the saved file.too... I have found three workarounds (and quitting word before reopening the file may be a good idea) 1. Save doc as RTF, then reopen (not so handy if doc contains macros) 2. Quit Word, restart word, reopne document, Select All and from the Formatting Toolbar choose the Highlighting too and select "No Highlight" - comments magically reappear (but not so handy if you have highlighting you want to keep 3. Use VBA for For Each comment, do an AnnotationEdit on the source range (very slow for large documents). Have no idea whether this problem affects later versions of Word (forced comment highlighting of 2007 prevents me switching), but it occurred on both Win XP and Vista HP. Hope this helps someone... [Search strings: balloons disappear, balloons have disappeared, balloon comments disappear, balloon comments have disappeared, balloons comments unviewable hidden can't see can't find can't show won't show contains no tracked changes] |
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