Using Reviewer Comments in PPT 2003

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I recently upgraded to PPT 2003 and find the new style comments a little
irritating in that they collapse and are very difficult to see as you page
through a presentation. I've just used the VBA code posted at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00462.htm to create a macro to convert
new style comments into old. However, this macro adds an old style comment
rather than replacing the new one. I decided to delete all the new style
comments. The disadvantage of that is that the reviewing toolbar can no
longer be used to cycle through the comments, because it seems to view the
macro-added ones as just textboxes.

Do the earlier versions of PPT (2000 and earlier) see the oldstyle comments
created via this macro as reviewer's comments or does it just see them as
textboxes?
 
I recently upgraded to PPT 2003 and find the new style comments a little
irritating in that they collapse and are very difficult to see as you page
through a presentation. I've just used the VBA code posted at
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00462.htm to create a macro to convert
new style comments into old. However, this macro adds an old style comment
rather than replacing the new one. I decided to delete all the new style
comments. The disadvantage of that is that the reviewing toolbar can no
longer be used to cycle through the comments, because it seems to view the
macro-added ones as just textboxes.
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Exactly so.

I'd guess that MS changed comments *specifically* so they could support
reviewing better.
Do the earlier versions of PPT (2000 and earlier) see the oldstyle comments
created via this macro as reviewer's comments or does it just see them as
textboxes?
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Older versions of PPT don't have the reviewing feature, so it's kind of a moot
point. ;-)

Basically, if you need reviewing features, you need to use a newer version of
PPT and put up with the new comments. If you need users of older versions of
PPT to be able to view the comments (but not participate in the reviewing
process), the macro helps.

Given that deleting the new-style comments would mess up reviewing, would it
still be useful to have it done automatically (perhaps as an option)? Should
be possible to add it to the macro.
 
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