Clive
Thank you ever so much for your reply. I completely understand what you said about volunteers. It's just that I'm so used to the Apple Forums, which probably have a legion of members!
I asked my coordinator - who also has Word 2008 - to create a table and to insert comments and send it to me. I had no problems inserting comments in the table she created so I think the problem lies with some corruption in the table in the lesson plan I was reviewing.
I thank you very much for the link to your book, which I have already downloaded and am going to read today.
Cheers
Dan
Well, Dan, it's possible no-one has an answer; or maybe all the volunteers
who call in here are busy in other things in their lives, which happens.
Someone may post with a solution soon. I can't -- I don't use Word 2008,
and I never use the Comment feature for commenting anyway (even though
the documents I work on collaboratively contain many comments inserted
by an alternative means). So I don't know if something is wrong. However,
if in the end you find you can't use Word's Comments feature in tables
in Word 2008, you'll find my quick-and-easy method described comprehensively
in an article (�Comment� feature, a simple substitute for)
on page 127 of some notes on the way I use Word for the Mac, titled "Bend
Word to Your Will", which are available as a free download from the Word
MVPs' website (
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/Bend/BendWordToYourWill.html).
[Note: "Bend Word to your will" is designed to be used electronically
and most subjects are self-contained dictionary-style entries. If you
decide to read more widely than the item I've referred to, it's important
to read the front end of the document -- especially pages 3 and 5 -- so
you can select some Word settings that will allow you to use the document
effectively.]
Cheers,
Clive Huggan Canberra, Australia (My time zone is 5-11 hours different
from the Americas and Europe, so my follow-on responses to those regions
can be delayed) ====================================================
anyone? > >> Hello, >> >> I am reviewing a lesson plan and I'd like
to comment on text that is in a >> table. My problem is: when I click
on New Comment, something happens but the >> comment field does not come
up and I cannot add a comment. I can write >> comments to every part of
the document that is not in a table. >> >> Am I doing something wrong
or is there a workaround? >> >> TIA
