In the new Word 2010, when you insert a comment on a selected word, the selected word gets highlighted. In Word 2003 it isn't. Is there a way to do it like the old version?

Thanks.

Hi Iammuffinman,

Via the Tracking panel on the Review tab of the Ribbon, you can change the 'Final showing markup' to just 'Final'. This will hide the comments. To change the comment shading, you can use the 'Comments' dropdown on the 'Track Changes Options' dialogue box to alter the comment colouring.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I tried your suggestion:

To change the comment shading, you can use the 'Comments' dropdown on the 'Track Changes Options' dialogue box to alter the comment colouring.

However, I need for the selected text to be just without any color. I prefer to just have the brackets around it. This is how it was in Word 2003.

Hi Iammuffinman,

The nearest you'll get is to set the 'Comments' dropdown to Automatic or Black. You can't entirely remove the shading, though, unless you use the 'Final' option.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]