Normal and you need to add comments to those files. The problem with this solution is that styles are document- or template-based, so it will not work if you are in a position where other people are sending you files created with their own version of Then click Save selection as a new Quick Style.Īt the bottom of the dialog box you have the option to save that style for this doc only or save it for the template so that it persists every time you create a new doc using that template (normal or otherwise). On the Home tab in the Styles section, click the arrow under theĬhange Styles button. Regarding the particular problem you are describing, are you saying that one and the same document displays differently on different computers?Įasiest way to do this is to format the comment the way you want, then select it. As far as I know, the issue has not been recognized as a bug by Microsoft, though. Obviously there is no good reason why the text formatting in comments should depend on two separate styles, but that's the way it is. Does this occur in legacy documents only?
As Balloon Text is a paragraph style itself, how on earth can it not only be active together with Comment Text, but even overrule it! As far as I can see, font size is alwayĭetermined by Balloon Text, while other font properties may stem from Comment Text!Įven stranger: if I create a new document myself, comments will show correctly, while many other people have this 1pt size fonts. No Balloon Text style is mentioned by the Style Inspector. The Style Inspector will show that, in comments, the Comment text Paragraph style is activeĪnd no character style. As far as I know, every text fragment can only be formatted by one paragraph style and one character style at a time. This Balloon Text style is a very strange thing. Font.Size = 10 'change to the size you wantĪssign the first macro to a toolbar button so that you can run it quickly. Font.Name = "Times New Roman" 'change to the font that you want To do so quickly, you can make use of the following macros:įunction ChangeStyle(StyleName As Variant) As Long So what we have to do is modify the Balloon Text and Comment Text styles in documents that students send to us.
Well, being a university lecturer myself, I do understand the difficulties. Sure that all students have a decent word processor available and to make sure they are converting the file to a Word-compatible format prior to submitting the file to be graded. It is not feasible for me to create a template and expect students to use it for their assignments. I teach at a university, and I use the Comments in Word to provide feedback to students on papers they submit electronically. Text style as a workaround until problems are resolved with the Comment Text style. While it does appear in the Comment Text style I created for my own computer (using 11-point instead of 10-point), I cannot make the text change size visibly.Īddendum: Further experimentation shows that I can apply a different style to the text inside comment balloons, and that I can change the font size if the default Comment Text style is not used in the comment balloons. In Word 2010 on my own computer, then added a comment balloon to that. Thinking that it might have something to do with the original template used to create the document, I just created a new blank document I have tried saving the files as Word 2010 files prior to adding comments, but it doesn't affect the performance at all. I can zoom the document to make it bigger, but then I can't see both the text in the document and my comments without scrolling back and forth. Even changing the style setting for Comment Text has no effect on anything visible. I go through the motions-changing the font size to selected text (all text in the balloon or even one specific word),Īnd while the Font settings show that I have changed the size, it is not visibly larger. Starting a few days ago, I can NOT make the font appear in anything other a tiny font that is definitely smaller than the 10-point font. The default 10pt was readable, but I found that it was easier to useġ1 or 12, using the font sizes the student had chosen to use in the document body. Until recently, I could resize the font in the comment balloons (and even change the style so that the change would apply automatically to all balloons in the document, new and existing). I teach online courses, and the students submit files as Word documents, and I add comments to the document to be returned to them. I am having the same problem, and it is relatively recent.
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