
Pressing Control + Alt + Shift + s simultaneously.To change this to a normal size, we need to access the Styles dialogue box, by either Note, that like everything in Track Changes, this only changes the view on your computer – whoever you are sending the document to will see it however they’ve set it up. The default is 6.5 cm but if you like to have your page of text bigger but still see your comments, change this to a smaller size. Right at the bottom, you’ll find options for making the comment review pane / margin smaller (and moving it to the left or top if you so desire). How do you resolve this issue? You need to pop into Track Changes (in the Review tab) and click on the little arrow at the bottom to give you the Track Changes Options. It looked something like this:Įven on my wide monitor, if the comment box margin is too wide, you get the choice of being able to see all of the text, as above, or all of the comment, as below – not very helpful! Although it doesn’t encroach on the text area on the page, it makes your total page really wide. Her comment box margin was somehow spreading across almost the whole page. This is the problem that my friend, Laura, had. Help! My comment box margin is too large! Thanks to my colleague, Laura, I realised that I needed to post an article on what to do if your comment box size, or the general comment box area, is bigger than you want it to be. I have already published a range of posts on issues with comment boxes or comment balloons, including ones on comment boxes suddenly going tiny, or comment box text running in the wrong direction, changing the language in your comment balloons.
