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Comments 2003
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 |
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Comments 2003
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 |
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Comments 2003
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 |
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Comments 2003
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 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 |
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