Hi guys!



Was hoping one of you could me. I'm currently writing my thesis on micro soft word and have encountered a problem. I have transcribed all my interviews onto one document and have used the comments function. The comments function has created a column on this document to display them in the right hand column.

Basically I want to copy across all of this into another document (my main thesis document) where the comments column only shows on certain pages that needs comments, currently it reformats all of my other pages to have a blank comments column on the right.

I've tried to use page breaks, but this doesn't work.

Any ideas?

Word 2013, Windows 8.1

Cheers!

The comments 'column' applies to the whole document, not to any particular part of it.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks for the reply. So is there no way to incorporate both into a single document?

As I've already indicated, it's an all-or-nothing affair. You either have the comment provision for the entire document or not at all.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Consider using a Table instead of the Comments function. The left column could hold your transcription and the right column your comments, as text. The right column could be formatted differently if you want. Tables do not need to have borders so it would not need to appear any different from the way you are showing now.

The comments feature is intended to mark up text, not to present text.

You could also use a program like SnagIt to create images that hold your comments and insert those.