How do I set up comments with no formatting showing?

[Guest]

I am an adult literacy tutor and want to find out if I can make comments show
up with no author or comment No. information? The idea is that a learner
hovers over a word and can see synonyms, alternate spellings etc, without the
formatting info of the comment also showing up.

I use Word 2003 in XP.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

I don't believe you can do precisely what you want in Word. You could,
however, use footnotes or endnotes. When you hover over the reference mark,
the contents of the footnote or endnote is displayed in a popup tooltip.

 

[Guest]

Hi

I was on a training course earlier today, where they were using 2000 I think
and the comment formatting didn't seem to show. Do yoiu think this is
something version specific?

Thanks for your iead I will try it tomorrow (it is midnight here in the UK)!

Regards

Gordon

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

In Word 2000, the reviewer's initials still show up in the text, along with
the comment number, and the reviewer's name shows up in the tooltip text
when you hover the mouse over the comment.

If you choose to go the footnote/endnote route, you can eliminate the number
by specifying an arbitrary reference symbol instead of letting it use
numbers. Of course, you'd need to do this each time you insert a footnote or
endnote, and unfortunately, Word won't let you use just a space.