(word 2004) comment/review pane font size way too small!

[david toub]

Unlike Word X and earlier, Word 2004 no longer has a View Comments
command, nor does it mark comments with yellow highlighting. I'm
finding it very difficult to read comments in balloons at page width on
my iBook. If I enlarge the view to > 100%, I have to scroll
horizontally, and for some reason the fonts get completely overlapped
when I scroll back (I have to page up or down to refresh the view). The
review pane is even worse-totally microscopic text, and I see nothing
in the preferences or formatting palette to cover this. I know that
comments are similar to screen tips, but see no easy way to change the
font size.

Is this an issue for anyone else? Any suggestions?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

If you turn off balloons, you can hover over the comments and see the text
in a screen tip. (You have to turn off balloons to get the full screen tip
even if you are using Normal View where they wouldn't show up anyhow). You
can set insertions and deletions to show in the text via Track Changes
Preferences, and then you can turn off the annoying Reviewing Pane entirely.

Not ideal, of course. But turning off balloons should also help with the
overlapping fonts/screen refresh problems, as Word is working very hard to
show those balloons and thus not showing other stuff properly.

The main problem with that setup is that Comments are a bit hard to find
because they are just marked by wimpy little colored parentheses. You might
experiment with the colors in Preferences to find one that is most visible.
The screentip also takes a small pause to show, and I don't know of any way
to change the size of screentip text.

Yes, I would like View | Comments back as well.

By the way--I don't think Screentips are similar to Comments at all, from
Word's point of view.