This is part of my series on how to avoid time-consuming “short cuts” and use Word in the right way to maximise your time and improve the look of your documents. What to do if your comment boxes start running from right to leftĬhanging the language in your comment balloonsĬustomising your comment boxes – everything you need to know What to do if your comment boxes go tiny in Word These related topics should help you further: Now, your comment will appear in the style you have chosen.Īgain, these changes will only affect your computer. Press the OK button, and carry on pressing OK buttons until you get back to your document. The standard size for balloon text is 8 or 10 so choose that and you’ll have a nice tidy balloon again! You’ll notice lots of other options (blue circle) to change the spacing, etc. When you first open this next window, the sort order is As Recommended – click on the down arrowto change it to Alphabetical:įind Balloon Text (note: not Comment text) and it confirms how you have your text set up (blue circle).Ĭlick the Modify button … to change your font and font size. Going to the Home tab and clicking the little arrow at the bottom right of the Styles menuĬlick the right hand button at the bottom: Manage Styles.Pressing Control + Alt + Shift + s simultaneously.To change this to a normal size, we need to access the Styles dialogue box, by either Note, that like everything in Track Changes, this only changes the view on your computer – whoever you are sending the document to will see it however they’ve set it up.
The default is 6.5 cm but if you like to have your page of text bigger but still see your comments, change this to a smaller size. Right at the bottom, you’ll find options for making the comment review pane / margin smaller (and moving it to the left or top if you so desire). How do you resolve this issue? You need to pop into Track Changes (in the Review tab) and click on the little arrow at the bottom to give you the Track Changes Options. It looked something like this:Įven on my wide monitor, if the comment box margin is too wide, you get the choice of being able to see all of the text, as above, or all of the comment, as below – not very helpful! Although it doesn’t encroach on the text area on the page, it makes your total page really wide. Her comment box margin was somehow spreading across almost the whole page. This is the problem that my friend, Laura, had. Help! My comment box margin is too large! Thanks to my colleague, Laura, I realised that I needed to post an article on what to do if your comment box size, or the general comment box area, is bigger than you want it to be. I have already published a range of posts on issues with comment boxes or comment balloons, including ones on comment boxes suddenly going tiny, or comment box text running in the wrong direction, changing the language in your comment balloons.
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