Just browsing thru here and remembered something which might help.

By the way, just recently found out (somewhere in here) about getting rid of
the unsightly (IMHO) comments ballons clutter and back to old style whereby
you just hover over the comment and read the pop-up. Have to click Tools,
Options, (somewhere) and then, for 'Ballons", choose "never".

Getting back to 'Wild 1's' query, I used to enter those old style comments a
lot and then just highlight them and press CTRL+SHIFT+H to hide them on the
page.

To prevent the comments from highlighting the target, you can try putting a
dot or a
letter one space to right of target and then either or both make the font of
that
character very small or make it 'white'. On top of that you can also "hide"
the latter
AND the comment number as noted above.

Then made a little yellow smiley macro button on Toolbar to click and unhide
all
hidden text (when 'Hidden Text' was not ticked in 'Tools, Options, View').
Then another frowning 'smiley' to hide all again. Fast & simple.

Another thing that might be helpful for long lines of hidden text, I found,
was to
place it in one or more borderless (but not-hidden), Table rows. This
prevents file display changes in Print Preview and prints all lines in same
positions as you see them displayed in your normal working (print?) view.
That is, the lines which
store the hidden text don't disappear, causing the others to jump up on the
page - just the hidden-text disappears.

Hope you can use some of that.

--
Ted...


"Wild1" wrote:

I want to insert a comment, but I don't want it to highlight anything. Is
there a way to make it stop doing that?