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One thing you need to be aware of is that as you insert comments, Word renumbers them so they are always sequential.

Make sure the Initials box has something in it.

The general options of the Word Options dialog box. (It may already be selected, by default, in the dialog box.) (See Figure 2.)įigure 2.

Click Popular (Word 2007) or General (Word 2010 and Word 2013) at the left side of the dialog box.

In Word 2010 or Word 2013 display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.)

(In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. If your comments don't show up this way, it could be because you don't have Word configured properly. Comments are automatically numbered in Word. For instance, if I insert comments, then they show up in the comment balloons with my intials (ALW) followed by numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.). That is, they should be numbered as long as you have Word configured to add the initials of the commenter to each comment. When entering comments they should be numbered by default. She needs a way to number comments that appear in comment balloons so that they can be referenced to the author and to others working on the project. She turns on Track Changes and does her work so that the author can see what was done. (To add frames you need to customize the Quick Access Toolbar or the ribbon to add the Insert Frame or Insert Frame Horizontal commands.) Why Microsoft removed this conversion capability is a mystery.Reynolds is a book editor, and she works with manuscripts in Word. You can still add frames, but you can't convert. Microsoft has removed the capability to convert a text box into a frame. If you are using Word 2010 or a later version of Word, the above steps won't work. You can now add comments to the text in the frame. Word informs you that by making the conversion, some of the text box's formatting may be lost. The Text Box tab of the Format Text Box dialog box.

Make sure the Text Box tab is selected.

Word displays the Format Text Box dialog box.

From the Context menu, choose the Format Text Box option.

Right-click on the border of your text box.

(You can then delete your drawing canvas, if it isn't serving any other purpose.) Just drag the text box outside the boundaries of your drawing canvas.

Make sure that the text box isn't located on a drawing canvas.

To convert a text box to a frame, follow these steps if you are using Word 2007:

One of the differences is that you can add comments to text within frames. They provide basically the same capabilities, but there are some differences. The second potential solution is to not use text boxes, but use frames.įrames have been available in Word for longer than text boxes. You can make the hidden text visible or invisible, as the need arises. The first is to work around it by just adding hidden text in the text box. If you absolutely must have comments in your text boxes, there are two possible solutions. Word won't allow you to add comments to text within a text box, as you can to regular text in your document. Text boxes are great for many things, but adding comments is not one of them.