Can't delete some comment and change balloons

[MC]

Hmmm... I have Track Changes set up to show changes, deletions and
comments in balloons.

Accept All works fine. So does doing it one by one -- most of the time.
But every so often I just can't get rid of the ballooon. Usually when it
refers to a single word.

Bug?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

What are you trying to get rid of them? Just Accept All? Accept All
doesn't affect Comments, I don't think--separate command for Delete All
Comments.

If doing it one-by-one, I've found that I have to be a little picky
about where I'm clicking (on the comment vs. in the comment text) to get
the correct right-click menu that offers Delete Comment/Reject Change.
Also, if your balloons have the name/date/time header, clicking the X in
that header Rejects/Delete the balloon (I keep the header turned off,
myself).

You are using 2008, right? (don't make me remember that, please Which
of the methods above is not working for you?

 

[MC]

What are you trying to get rid of them? Just Accept All? Accept All
doesn't affect Comments, I don't think--separate command for Delete All
Comments.

I need to get rid of some but not all as I go through succeeding drafts
of a job.

If doing it one-by-one, I've found that I have to be a little picky
about where I'm clicking (on the comment vs. in the comment text) to get
the correct right-click menu that offers Delete Comment/Reject Change.
Also, if your balloons have the name/date/time header, clicking the X in
that header Rejects/Delete the balloon (I keep the header turned off,
myself).

You are using 2008, right? (don't make me remember that, please Which
of the methods above is not working for you?

I am using 2008. I have put Delete Comment and Accept Change buttons in
the Reviewing Toolbar. Most of the time they work, butsome of the
time... no.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I am using 2008. I have put Delete Comment and Accept Change buttons in
the Reviewing Toolbar. Most of the time they work, butsome of the
time... no.

Right, yet another method. See if a different method works to delete
those balloons, then--right-click or the action buttons in the header.
No clue otherwise. Can't reproduce on my machine--if you can figure out
something that consistently triggers it, or come across changes/comments
that really can't be deleted by *any* method, post here and let MS know.

Also, note that selecting text and typing substitute text is both an
Insertion and a Deletion and may need to be accepted/rejected twice.