[exslot]

Just used track changes/comments for only the third time, though I've used computers for years and I cannot add a comment in the footnotes. I can make changes, but not comment. It works fine in the body of the document but as soon as I go to the footnote, the "comment" icon goes gray and I am locked out. I tried saving as both .doc and .docx but no difference. Several other people I shared the document with had no trouble so obviously I am doing smething wrong Any thoughts? I am using Word 2010. Thanks

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Footer (per your subject line) or footnotes (per your post body)?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"exslot" wrote in message
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Just used track changes/comments for only the third time, though I've
used computers for years and I cannot add a comment in the footnotes. I
can make changes, but not comment. It works fine in the body of the
document but as soon as I go to the footnote, the "comment" icon goes
gray and I am locked out. I tried saving as both .doc and .docx but no
difference. Several other people I shared the document with had no
trouble so obviously I am doing smething wrong Any thoughts? I am using
Word 2010. Thanks




--
exslot

[Peter T. Daniels]

Yes, you can't do a comment in a footnote. I simply put the comment on
the footnote reference in the text (with a mention that it refers to
the footnote, in case it isn't glaringly obvious that it does).

That's for Word2007. If you _can_ put comments in footnotes in
Word2010, is it maybe a document created in 2007 and opened in some
sort of Compatibility Mode? Maybe you need to Save As a new document
so it will update the format?

On Mar 29, 4:08*pm, exslot wrote:
Just used track changes/comments for only the third time, though I've
used computers for years and I cannot add a comment in the footnotes. I
can make changes, but not comment. It works fine in the body of the
document but as soon as I go to the footnote, the "comment" icon goes
gray and I am locked out. I tried saving as both .doc and .docx but no
difference. Several other people I shared the document with had no
trouble so obviously I am doing smething wrong Any thoughts? I am using
Word 2010. Thanks

--
exslot

[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

Good question, but of course you can't add a comment to either location.

As a workaround, I'd just type in my "comments" within brackets and format
them in, say, bold and italic (anything that makes them stand out).

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ...

Footer (per your subject line) or footnotes (per your post body)?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"exslot" wrote in message
...

Just used track changes/comments for only the third time, though I've
used computers for years and I cannot add a comment in the footnotes. I
can make changes, but not comment. It works fine in the body of the
document but as soon as I go to the footnote, the "comment" icon goes
gray and I am locked out. I tried saving as both .doc and .docx but no
difference. Several other people I shared the document with had no
trouble so obviously I am doing smething wrong Any thoughts? I am using
Word 2010. Thanks




--
exslot

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Good point. For some reason I was thinking you could put a comment in a
header/footer.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
Good question, but of course you can't add a comment to either location.

As a workaround, I'd just type in my "comments" within brackets and format
them in, say, bold and italic (anything that makes them stand out).

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ...

Footer (per your subject line) or footnotes (per your post body)?

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"exslot" wrote in message
...

Just used track changes/comments for only the third time, though I've
used computers for years and I cannot add a comment in the footnotes. I
can make changes, but not comment. It works fine in the body of the
document but as soon as I go to the footnote, the "comment" icon goes
gray and I am locked out. I tried saving as both .doc and .docx but no
difference. Several other people I shared the document with had no
trouble so obviously I am doing smething wrong Any thoughts? I am using
Word 2010. Thanks




--
exslot

[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

My guess is that those "other people" did something else, perhaps placed a
text box on top of the footnote area to get the appearance of a comment.
True comments can't be placed in footnotes, not even in Word 2010.

-- 
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP




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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote in message
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Yes, you can't do a comment in a footnote. I simply put the comment on
the footnote reference in the text (with a mention that it refers to
the footnote, in case it isn't glaringly obvious that it does).

That's for Word2007. If you _can_ put comments in footnotes in
Word2010, is it maybe a document created in 2007 and opened in some
sort of Compatibility Mode? Maybe you need to Save As a new document
so it will update the format?

On Mar 29, 4:08 pm, exslot wrote:
Just used track changes/comments for only the third time, though I've
used computers for years and I cannot add a comment in the footnotes. I
can make changes, but not comment. It works fine in the body of the
document but as soon as I go to the footnote, the "comment" icon goes
gray and I am locked out. I tried saving as both .doc and .docx but no
difference. Several other people I shared the document with had no
trouble so obviously I am doing smething wrong Any thoughts? I am using
Word 2010. Thanks

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exslot