I have a document with a number of quite long comments made by various editors.


When one or more of these comments gets quite long, all comments on the page in question collapse and each appears with a drop-down arrow next to it. See foot of this message.

If I click on the first comment in the bubble the comment expands. Fine. But I'd like a bit more control over whether the comments collapse or not. As it stands, there is lots of space on the page to display most of the comments but they all get collapsed because presumably they run to a depth that is longer than can be displayed on the page.

I'm guessing the answer is no but are they any options to controlling how these comments are collapsed?

http://imgur.com/Zg6zimR

Word often does not manage when there are many and/or long comments shown in balloons, as you have noticed. What you can do is try increasing the "Preferred width" for the balloons in the Advanced Track Changes Options dialog box.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional

That's brilliant Stefan. Thanks. Didn't spot that option.