In Lotus Notes, there's a featured called the Permanent Pen. You can set the
style of the pen and when it's selected, you can write with that style
anywhere in any document regardless of the document's formatting, where it
came from, etc.

Is there a comparable feature in Word? This is sort of a follow-up to my
other question.

Basically, we have a group of teachers who add their responses,
explanations, etc directly into the Word documents students send. Obviously,
they want their words to be a different style from the student's.

The problem is, custom styles don't seem to carry over into documents
created by other people, so the teacher's end up having to redefine the style
for the text they're inserting (via the shortcut key they assigned to the
style) over and over and over again for every Word document they receive.

They've been spoiled by the Permanent Pen feature of Lotus that allows you
to just set the pen and write away in your style across documents and they
really need something similar to that functionality in Word to lighten the
load and save a tremendous amount of time.

So is there anything comparable to that feature in Word?

You could use the Comments feature, which will put your remarks in
balloons in the margins alongside what you're commenting on.

It's part of Track Changes -- in Word2003, an icon in the Track
Changes (or Reviewing?) toolbar; in Word2007, on the Review tab of the
Ribbon.

On Oct 29, 1:57*pm, Cyberphonics
<Cyberphon...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> In Lotus Notes, there's a featured called the Permanent Pen. You can set the
> style of the pen and when it's selected, you can write with that style
> anywhere in any document regardless of the document's formatting, where it
> came from, etc.
>
> Is there a comparable feature in Word? This is sort of a follow-up to my
> other question.
>
> Basically, we have a group of teachers who add their responses,
> explanations, etc directly into the Word documents students send. Obviously,
> they want their words to be a different style from the student's.
>
> The problem is, custom styles don't seem to carry over into documents
> created by other people, so the teacher's end up having to redefine the style
> for the text they're inserting (via the shortcut key they assigned to the
> style) over and over and over again for every Word document they receive.
>
> They've been spoiled by the Permanent Pen feature of Lotus that allows you
> to just set the pen and write away in your style across documents and they
> really need something similar to that functionality in Word to lighten the
> load and save a tremendous amount of time.
>
> So is there anything comparable to that feature in Word?

[hbz]

Hi there!
"Permanent Pen" in Lotus Notes - Oh, I wish MS Word did have a comparable feature! I've been looking for ages. The Trak Changes really isnt the same at all, I'm afraid.

Its such a simple tool but very handy!

I guess its back to manually changing colour, font and bold for each entry - boo!