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8th May 2012, 09:18 AM | #1 |
Chordate
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Word 2007 - I'm missing an option that's supposed to be there...
This has been driving me slightly nuts all day, and the web doesn't seem to know about it...
I'm using Word 2007 SP3 to review a manuscript at the moment, adding plenty of comment balloons. Some of these are quite verbose (the original author is only arguably competent in scientific English), so real estate in the sidebar is precious already. Things are made worse by Word's insistence on double-spacing comment text, so stuff looks like this: This looks bad and hogs too much space, and I want it gone. The style for both Balloons and Comments is set to single-spaced; apparently this type of double-spacing is caused by the lines being snapped to the document grid (which is double-spaced and needs to stay that way). So, the way to turn it off is to uncheck the relevant box found under Comment Text style/Modify/Format/Paragraph, which is supposed to look like this: Trouble is, I don't have that lower checkbox that says "don't snap to grid". Mine looks like this: The option is plain missing. Can anyone tell me why that is? Is that only present in Word 2010, or something? |
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8th May 2012, 10:30 AM | #2 |
Muse
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That option doesn't show up in my install of Word 2010 either. I did find a reference that it only is available of the Chinese or Japanese language pack is installed. I can't confirm that, since the East Asian language packs aren't free downloads.
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8th May 2012, 11:06 AM | #3 |
Chordate
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Hah! That would actually make some sense - the person who provided that guide most definitely has East Asian language packs installed. Interesting. Could you let me have the link where you found that info?
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8th May 2012, 11:12 AM | #4 |
Chordate
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Hot dog, you were right! Enabling Japanese as an editing language adds that option to the menu. Got it in one Thanks, mate!
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8th May 2012, 11:22 AM | #5 |
Muse
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It was kind of a roundabout reference. Here's what first led me down that path
http://mac2.microsoft.com/help/offic...4-7100974d5cc0 and then from there to searching {"snap to grid when document grid is defined" "word 2010"} the only references were pages talking about the East Asian language defs. It's only an inference on my part, though. Edit: Cool. Glad to hear it. |
8th May 2012, 01:37 PM | #6 |
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