"Insert Comments" in Word 2008 -- make like Word 2004?

[Steve Maser]

Hello all...

One of my users went ape with the "bracketing" of a word/space when
Word 2008 does an "Insert Comments". The user clearly doesn't like it
and made it obvious to me that this was a deal-breaker in upgrading to
Office 2008

The user wants to revert back to the "|" character that identifies
where the comment was inserted (even if the comment was in a space...)


If this is a preference I can change -- I'm missing where this is
in the Word 2008 preferences -- the "Track Changes" preference doesn't
have any options besides color for "Comments".

Does anybody know if this is possible? Maybe I'm looking for the
wrong preference to change?

Thanks!

- Steve

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Steve:

No, sorry there is no preference I know of that would change that.

Cheers

Hello all...

One of my users went ape with the "bracketing" of a word/space when
Word 2008 does an "Insert Comments". The user clearly doesn't like it
and made it obvious to me that this was a deal-breaker in upgrading to
Office 2008

The user wants to revert back to the "|" character that identifies
where the comment was inserted (even if the comment was in a space...)


If this is a preference I can change -- I'm missing where this is
in the Word 2008 preferences -- the "Track Changes" preference doesn't
have any options besides color for "Comments".

Does anybody know if this is possible? Maybe I'm looking for the
wrong preference to change?

Thanks!

- Steve

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[Steve Maser]

Hi Steve:

No, sorry there is no preference I know of that would change that.

Cheers

The weird thing is you can open a document that had comments inserted
in "Word 2004" style with Word 2008 -- and they retain the style of
Word 2004.


But then any new comments use the Word 2008 style.


And vice versa!



- Steve