Microsoft Word: Change the Font Face and Size in Comments

Contributor Icon Contributed by MickeyMouse Date Icon October 15, 2005  
Tag Icon Tagged: Microsoft Office

When editing documents for others, the comments feature of Word can be very useful. However, the small black on red text is painful. Here’s how to change the appearance of the comments


Change the Comments Style:

    1. Open Word
    2. Click Format menu
    3. Click Styles and Formatting
    4. At the very bottom of the Formatting sidebar is a dropdown box. Select custom for this dropdown.
    5. Check Balloon Text (Not Comment Text)
    6. Click OK
    7. Select Balloon Text in the Formatting sidebar
    8. Click Modify
    9. Now you can select the font face, style, and color you want for your comments.
    10 Click OK
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  • DOC
    Thanks! Shame I couldn't find this info in the help file, or on Microsoft's site, but thank you for posting this
  • Heidi
    I was so happy to find this response but there is no Style and Format tab no in Vista.
    Is there still a way?
  • bells4u
    It's in Home/Styles. Click the arrow to open the dialogue box. Slide to Comments, right click on Modify.

    It took me a while to figure it out too. Thanks again Microsoft for wasting our time!
  • Name
    what about for 2007?
  • iggytmi
    this has been really helpful!
  • znands
    Very helpful and thanks. However, I can't figure out how to have the program keep the setting. I have to go back and change the options every time. Any suggestions? Many thanks.
  • sunainaEsp
    Thanks for very important and usuful information. We have more than 500 document files to handle and we have to set it for each file seperataly .. any way we can set it once and for all?
    thanks again
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