On 3/7/06 7:34 PM, "Steve Hayes" wrote:

On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 10:04:50 -0500, Stan Brown
wrote:

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:06:58 +0200 from Steve Hayes
:
I've sent a document composed in Word 97 to someone, and they say that their
computer does not show comments.

Which release of Word are they using?

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions... I've passed them on. By she says
she is using something called "Ability Word", which i hadn't heard of (and
neither had she till she started using that computer(

In that case, her program probably can't read the comments--Word uses some
sort of special code to save them in with the document, and a program has to
specifically provide for reading that code for comments to be exchanged.
Ditto for Track Changes and all Word's special reviewing features.

Although I thought both OpenOffice.org and AbiWord did promise to show
reviewing features from Word. She might also check into the MS Word Viewer,
which ought to show comments, I imagine. So first, she needs to find out if
her program is supposed to show comments, and if it does, then she needs to
ask people who know about that program how to see them.

If this is what's she's using, doesn't look so promising on quick glance.
http://ability.com/

Alternatively, get it showing on your machine, and use a PDF print driver to
create a PDF to send her instead.