Printing the yellow Comments highlighting

[Felissa]

I suspect that the answer to this may very well be "it
can't be done," but I'm gonna ask anyway... I'm using Word
97. I have a person who wants his printed documents to
show the yellow highlighting that indicates a Comment. I'm
aware of how to print the Comment text, but what I'm going
for is the actual yellow highlighting that appears on
screen. Any ideas are greatly, deeply appreciated!

Felissa
Sterling, VA

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi, Felissa,

Put these two macros into the template those documents are based on:

Sub FilePrintDefault()
Dim oCom As Comment

For Each oCom In ActiveDocument.Comments
oCom.Scope.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
Next oCom
ActiveDocument.PrintOut Background:=False
ActiveDocument.Undo
End Sub

Sub FilePrint()
Dim oCom As Comment

For Each oCom In ActiveDocument.Comments
oCom.Scope.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
Next oCom
Dialogs(wdDialogFilePrint).Show
ActiveDocument.Undo
End Sub

These were written in Word 2000, but they don't use anything that isn't
available in Word 97 so they should work.