Comments in color?

[Orrie]

I'm working collaboratively with some other people, using the Comments
feature of Word. (I'm working in Word 2000, and will soon be switching to
Word 2002 on a new computer. My colleagues use Word 2003.)

The problem is that it's hard to spot comment cues (the comment author's
initials and the comment number) in long, dense documents. The obvious
answer would be to make the comments appear in a different color from the
text. Say, blue or red when the text is black.

Is there any way to do this, or anything else that can make it easy to spot
a comment cue on a page of text?

Thank you.

Orrie

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Orrie,

In Word 2000 as well as 2003, Word should be "highlighting" the text that was
selected when the comment was created. Is it not doing this?

You might also want to display the "Reviewing pane" that will list the
comments.

I'm working collaboratively with some other people, using the Comments
feature of Word. (I'm working in Word 2000, and will soon be switching to
Word 2002 on a new computer. My colleagues use Word 2003.)

The problem is that it's hard to spot comment cues (the comment author's
initials and the comment number) in long, dense documents. The obvious
answer would be to make the comments appear in a different color from the
text. Say, blue or red when the text is black.

Is there any way to do this, or anything else that can make it easy to spot
a comment cue on a page of text?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Orrie]

Thanks for the clues, Cindy.

I found it! Tools/Options/View/Show check Screen Tips. I had to do it twice
before it worked. Boy, this makes life a lot easier. MS should include it
the Word help file.

Orrie