Comments highlighting disappeared?

Subject: Comments highlighting disappeared?
From: Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 09:37:57 -0500


Mordechai Brown wondered: <<I've been using Word 2000's Insert Comment feature for years, but recently the yellow highlighting on the commented text, as well as the tool-tip display of the comment itself, stopped working on both of my computers. The only way I can see the comments is to open the View Comments pane. The same files on other computers work fine. I tried reinstalling Word, but it didn't help.>>

Haven't used Word 2000, but based on the behavior in previous and subsequent versions (PC and Mac), it's likely a problem with one of your View preferences. Open the Preferences (Mac) or Options (Windows), and have a look at the View tab: Screentips and Highlighting must both be selected for the comment highlighting to appear and to pop up the comment text when you hold the cursor over the highlighting. You may also want to select "Hidden text"; generally, this can't hurt.

Word's preferences have always been flakey and subject to change for reasons known only to Microsoft; for example, I've found that there appear to be a few obscure keyboard commands you can hit accidentally that randomly change preferences settings without telling you that they did so. Plus, the preferences file becomes corrupt far more often than it should. Life with Word!

--Geoff Hart ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca
(try geoffhart -at- mac -dot- com if you don't get a reply)
www.geoff-hart.com


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Comments highlighting disappeared: From: Brown, Mordechai

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