comment balloons & reviewing pane

[fundy]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

in some documents hitting "new comment" creates a balloon, in some it opens the reviewing pane
under prefs I have "use balloons to display changes" checked

then sometimes my balloons change into entries in the reviewing pane

I don't like the reviewing pane
how can I get the balloons to work?

 

[John McGhie]

Your balloons ARE working.

You are encountering some documents in which the balloons setting has been
turned off. Go to preferences and turn it back on: it's a per-document
setting.

You are encountering other documents where there are so many balloons they
won't fit: then Word uses the Reviewing pane instead. You should not make
so many comments

Hope this helps

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Power PC

in some documents hitting "new comment" creates a balloon, in some it opens
the reviewing pane
under prefs I have "use balloons to display changes" checked

then sometimes my balloons change into entries in the reviewing pane

I don't like the reviewing pane
how can I get the balloons to work?

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Peter Wilson]

thanks John, but as I mentioned in my email: under prefs I have "use balloons to display changes" checked. this is the first thing I look at.

I have one or two comments per document
I assume this is not too many

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Peter:

Right... You've got me...

Any chance these documents could be coming from PC Word 2007?

In PC Word, there is the ability to show various "kinds" of changes in
balloons.

I keep thinking that this is a "per document" setting, but I cannot find any
documentation supporting this idea.

You could try removing your preferences and see if that helps:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DamagedPrefs.html

Hope this helps

thanks John, but as I mentioned in my email: under prefs I have "use balloons
to display changes" checked. this is the first thing I look at.

I have one or two comments per document
I assume this is not too many

--

Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]