• How To Insert Full Name Comment Balloons Word For Mac 2017 Free
• How To Insert Full Name Comment Balloons Word For Mac 2017 Download

Word shows changes in the document by displaying a line in the margin. If you switch to All Markup view, you'll see changes inline and in balloons. Anytime someone adds a comment, it'll show up in a balloon. Show changes inline. To see changes inline instead of in balloons, do the following: On the Review Tab, select Markup Options. Track Changes and add Comments in Word Word allows users to track their changes and add comment balloons when multiple users are working on the same document. Your name or initials will be displayed next to the changes you made. The first step is setting up Word to display your name. From the Tools menu choose Options.

I'm reviewing Word files and inserting comments for the author. I'd like to see show Word comments in balloons along the sidebar, but Word won't cooperate, and shows them in a Reviewing Pane, at the bottom of the window. Here's how to fix the problem

Reviewing Pane

How To Insert Full Name Comment Balloons Word For Mac 2017 Free

Here's what I was seeing in Word -- comments were listed in the Reviewing Pane. In the Word document, the DD1 comment is highlighted, and the text for that comment is in the Reviewing Pane.

I have trouble editing my comments in the Reviewing Pane. Usually when you select text and start typing, the selected text is replaced with the new text. Not in the Reviewing Pane, unfortunately, where new text is inserted beside the selected text.

It's a real annoyance, and time waster. Editing works just fine in the balloons, which is one of the reasons that I prefer them.

How To Show Balloons in Word 2007

If you're using Word 2007, here's how to show Word comments in balloons:

1. Choose Print Layout, Full Screen or Web Layout view. Balloon comments will only display in these views.
2. Click the Review tab on the Ribbon, then click the Balloons command
3. In the drop down list, click on Show Revisions in Balloons or ShowOnly Comments and Formatting in Balloons.

How To Show Balloons in Word 2003

After a few minutes of searching through the menus and options, I figured out how to show Word comments in balloons in Word 2003..

1. First, choose either Print Layout view or Web Layout view. Balloon comments will only display in these views.
2. Then, on the Tools menu, click on Options
3. On the Track Changes tab, in the Balloons section, click the drop down arrow for Use Balloons, and click on Always or Only for Comments/Formatting, then click OK.

The comments now appear in balloons in the right margin.

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How To Insert Full Name Comment Balloons Word For Mac 2017 Download

Speech bubbles are a good way to help your document deliver its message. You’d be surprised at just how easy it is to make a speech bubble in Word.

Let’s get straight to it and add one now. On the Insert tab, click Shapes (in the Illustrations group) > Oval Callout. The shapes are not visibly named, but the Oval Callout shape is in the Callouts section near the bottom.

Clicking the shape doesn’t insert it; it simply activates the tool. You still need to draw the shape on the page by clicking and dragging in your document. Once you’ve clicked and dragged, you should get something like this:

This is all well and good if you want something quick. We, on the other hand, are genteel and sophisticated. We desire a speech bubble that has a curved bit like this:

We can make that curve by manipulating the points on the shape. If you’ve used image editors like Adobe Illustrator or Fireworks, this should be a doddle. If you haven’t, don’t worry because it’s quite easy anyway.

With the speech bubble still selected, make sure you’re working on the Format tab of the Drawing Tools contextual tab (it pops up whenever a shape is selected).

Click Edit Shape (in the Insert Shapes group) > Edit Points. You’ll notice that the bounding box for the shape has gone. Each point that defines the shape is also now selectable and able to be manipulated.

Click on the point right at the bottom and drag it further down. Because this point is now selected, you should see some yellow handles that you can drag around to alter the curve of the lines coming out of that point.

Try it. Drag those handles around to get a feel for how they affect the curvature. Those handles affect the curve of the lines near the selected point. To change the curvature of a line near the point at the other end, select that point and repeat the process. This is often necessary to achieve a nice smoothe curve.

To get the following speech bubble, drag the yellow handle on the right upwards and to the right. Do the same with the yellow handle on the left.

The curve looks fine as it leaves the bottom point, but it soon goes awry further up. We can fix that by selecting the point (click on it) and then by dragging the leftmost yellow handle to the right. You can even drag the point itself over to the right to get something like this: