Show comments inline in text?

[Fraser]

Hello,

Is is possible to have comments displayed inline in the text? I have seen
how to display edits/changes inline but cannot figure out how to show the
comments that way. Thank you in advance for any helpful advice.

Fraser

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hello,

Is is possible to have comments displayed inline in the text? I have
seen how to display edits/changes inline but cannot figure out how to
show the comments that way. Thank you in advance for any helpful
advice.

Fraser

Sorry, no. Word shows comments in balloons or in the Reviewing Pane, but not
inline.

If you know that's what you want, you could type all your comments as
tracked inserts. You can temporarily change your name in the User
Information section of the options dialog (for instance, add a character to
it), and then you can use the Tracked Changes option to display only the
changes from that "author" to see inline "comments".

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[Fraser]

Thank you Jay. I will do that in future. Unfortunately that won't help with
the document I have already commented. Ah well ...

Thank you for the prompt and helpful suggestion.

Cheers,
Fraser

 

[Stefan Blom]

You can use a macro such as the following:

Sub InsertNotesInText()
Dim c As Comment
For Each c In ActiveDocument.Comments
c.Reference.InsertAfter "[" & c.Range.Text & "]"
Next c
End Sub

For assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

Run the macro to insert the comment text. Make sure not to save the document
unless you want to save the "inline" comments (but, of course, you can print
it or Save As).

 

[Fraser]

Thank you Stefan,

I will try that on the next occasion when I have to extract the comments. It
seems that Word can be made to do almost anything via macros. I appreciate
all of the helpful advice.

Cheers,
Fraser

You can use a macro such as the following:

Sub InsertNotesInText()
Dim c As Comment
For Each c In ActiveDocument.Comments
c.Reference.InsertAfter "[" & c.Range.Text & "]"
Next c
End Sub

For assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

Run the macro to insert the comment text. Make sure not to save the document
unless you want to save the "inline" comments (but, of course, you can print
it or Save As).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Thank you Jay. I will do that in future. Unfortunately that won't help
with
the document I have already commented. Ah well ...

Thank you for the prompt and helpful suggestion.

Cheers,
Fraser

 

[Stefan Blom]

Thank you for the feedback.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Thank you Stefan,

I will try that on the next occasion when I have to extract the comments.
It
seems that Word can be made to do almost anything via macros. I appreciate
all of the helpful advice.

Cheers,
Fraser

You can use a macro such as the following:

Sub InsertNotesInText()
Dim c As Comment
For Each c In ActiveDocument.Comments
c.Reference.InsertAfter "[" & c.Range.Text & "]"
Next c
End Sub

For assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

Run the macro to insert the comment text. Make sure not to save the
document
unless you want to save the "inline" comments (but, of course, you can
print
it or Save As).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Thank you Jay. I will do that in future. Unfortunately that won't help
with
the document I have already commented. Ah well ...

Thank you for the prompt and helpful suggestion.

Cheers,
Fraser


:

Fraser wrote:
Hello,

Is is possible to have comments displayed inline in the text? I have
seen how to display edits/changes inline but cannot figure out how
to
show the comments that way. Thank you in advance for any helpful
advice.

Fraser

Sorry, no. Word shows comments in balloons or in the Reviewing Pane,
but
not
inline.

If you know that's what you want, you could type all your comments as
tracked inserts. You can temporarily change your name in the User
Information section of the options dialog (for instance, add a
character
to
it), and then you can use the Tracked Changes option to display only
the
changes from that "author" to see inline "comments".

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup
so
all may benefit.