Comment bubble text -- changing line spacing

[gjl75]

My commenting bubble text seems adopts the font style/characteristics of the
main text. Thus, when the main text is triple-spaced, my commenting text is
the same, and my bubbles expand to out-of-control proportions. I'm able to
change the font style and justification under "Change the way tracked changes
and comments look" in Help, but it won't change the line spacing. Can anyone
help?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This suggests that you have modified the line spacing of Normal style, which
you are using for the body text. Because the Comment Text style is based on
Normal, it adopts the line spacing. This is why we suggest not modifying
Normal style in this way and using Body Text instead (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NormalVsBodyStyles.htm), but in this
case, it will be more efficient to modify the Comment Text style to be
single-spaced. See http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/styles/ModifyAStyle.html

 

[gjl75]

Neither suggestion is working out in my case. I open the Styles and
Formatting window, click on Comment Text, click on Modify, and although it
says it is single-spaced, it doesn't appear that way. Also, even if I change
the font size, the font size remains the same. The only thing it allows me to
do is change the font itself. This happens when I click on "Add to Template,"
when I change "Style based on" to (no style), and when I click on the Format
button and change the line spacing under the Paragraph option. It simply
ignores what I want it to do.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not sure what the answer is then. If you would like to send a *small*
sample doc, I'll have a look.

 

[gjl75]

Thank you. Would I send it somewhere through here or to an email address of
yours from your Web site?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You should be able to see my email address in my post, but send it to
sbarnhill (at) mvps (dot) org.