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Walter Briscoe
I use Microsoft Word 2003 (11.8328.8333) SP3 and VBA derived from
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.5.
I want to insert many comments in a document.
Because I want to do this many times, I want to bind the operation to a
single key (I was thinking of Ctrl+.)
Before I got that far, I have problems with comment format.
I open a balloon with Insert/Comment (Alt+I+m).
The text is unreasonably small. I searched help for "comments font" and
was pointed at "Change the way tracked changes and comments look".
I expanded "Change the size or appearance of balloon text" , but the
text on how to display the balloon text style was absent. I googled and
found "In the Show box, click Custom.
In the Format Settings dialog box, under Styles to be visible,
select the Balloon Text check box, and then click OK.
" Once that is done I could alter the font used.
When I do Alt+I+m, the first character I type is stripped by Word. I do
not know why, but infer it is a style issue. It also capitalises the
first word of the comment as if it starts a sentence.
When I record a macro to encapsulate Alt+I+m, the generated code is
Selection.Comments.Add Range:=Selection.Range.
When I run that code, the reviewing pane is opened and the balloon is
preset to a field format which is something like { PAGE \# "'Page:'#'}
I would value an explanation and instructions on how I can persuade Word
to be less "helpful" - i.e. I want a macro which opens a balloon and
does no more.
This is cross-posted as I have both general and programming issues with
balloon text.
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.5.
I want to insert many comments in a document.
Because I want to do this many times, I want to bind the operation to a
single key (I was thinking of Ctrl+.)
Before I got that far, I have problems with comment format.
I open a balloon with Insert/Comment (Alt+I+m).
The text is unreasonably small. I searched help for "comments font" and
was pointed at "Change the way tracked changes and comments look".
I expanded "Change the size or appearance of balloon text" , but the
text on how to display the balloon text style was absent. I googled and
found "In the Show box, click Custom.
In the Format Settings dialog box, under Styles to be visible,
select the Balloon Text check box, and then click OK.
" Once that is done I could alter the font used.
When I do Alt+I+m, the first character I type is stripped by Word. I do
not know why, but infer it is a style issue. It also capitalises the
first word of the comment as if it starts a sentence.
When I record a macro to encapsulate Alt+I+m, the generated code is
Selection.Comments.Add Range:=Selection.Range.
When I run that code, the reviewing pane is opened and the balloon is
preset to a field format which is something like { PAGE \# "'Page:'#'}
I would value an explanation and instructions on how I can persuade Word
to be less "helpful" - i.e. I want a macro which opens a balloon and
does no more.
This is cross-posted as I have both general and programming issues with
balloon text.