I received a Word document from someone. Two different people have made ‘track comments’ in the right hand column in their Word document. However, when I opened LO Writer, it is difficult to read the track comments in numerous tiny boxes. Is there an easier way of reading the comments?
For collaborative work you should all work using the same software. I keep MS Office for this purpose when people cannot use LibreOffice.
In Writer you can:
- Read the comments in the “numerous tiny boxes” at the side. Increasing the Zoom in the document will also increase the size of the text in the comments
- Open the Sidebar and select the Navigator icon. Scroll down to Comments and you can read the comments if short, or by hovering to read longer comments. Double-clicking any comment will take you to that part of the document.
- You can instead print comments only to paper or pdf
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I unfortunately do not have MsOffice in my computers and I have no intention of purchasing the software when I consider LibreOffice more user-friendly and a better program.
Thank you. I didn’t realise I could see and read the comments better in the sidebar. However, the sidebar’s maximum length is about three inches wide and I still have to scroll right and left to read the long sentences. Is there a way of wrapping the sentences or widen the side bar to at least half the screen width?
Printing the comments is helpful too but again I find it difficult to connect the comments to the words/sentences in the main body of the document. On the screen the lines and the dotted lines do not really seem to serve any function - for instance the line does not become enhanced or something like that when I click each box?
I assume you are using the Navigator.
You can undock the sidebar by dragging and setting the window to the desired width.
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Ah yes, I didn’t realise undocking the sidebar can resize the width - thank you!
One more issue: what about the lines and dotted lines - what are their purposes/functions?
Apologies. Happy to oblige.