Thank you! Other related posts on this blog If you have found this article helpful, please add a comment and/or share it using the buttons below. If your editor, client or co-writer wants to change this view, they’ll have to change it themselves. This only applies to your individual view of the document on your particular computer / screen. Now the text that the comment is about will be highlighted when you’re looking at the document: Click on the down arrow to the left to access the dropdown menu: You can change the settings to do this by going to the Review Tab and the Track Changes area. How do I highlight the text that’s being commented on?
Microsoft tends to try to make things look simpler, but personally, I don’t find it helpful. Why can’t I see which bit of text this comment balloon is about?Īs a default in Word 2013 and Word 2016, you can see your text and you can see your comments, but you can’t see which bit of text the comment refers to.
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This article covers how to highlight the text that a comment balloon relates to. 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.