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how do i remove the shaded sidebar for printing?
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R in AZ
2010-03-01 22:05:02 UTC
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I can't seem to eliminate the shaded sidebar on the righthand side of each
page. It prints out as a light gray area down the page. Would appreciate
anyone's help with this. Thanks. r
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
2010-03-01 22:43:32 UTC
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It sounds like you have track changes enabled or are showing comments in
balloons

Make sure that in the Tracking section of the Review tab that you have
selected Final and not Final showing markup.
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
Post by R in AZ
I can't seem to eliminate the shaded sidebar on the righthand side of each
page. It prints out as a light gray area down the page. Would appreciate
anyone's help with this. Thanks. r
American since 1749
2010-03-04 16:37:38 UTC
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I have a similar but more complicated question: I'm preparing a
document with several sections, only one of which has or needs any
comment balloons. I need the comments in that section to print, but I
don't want the other sections in the document (the ones with no
comments) to print small to allow space for comments that don't exist
in those sections. The only solution I've found so far is separate
documents; is there a way to display and print the comment balloons
only in a single section of a document, while allowing the rest of the
document to display and print as if there were no comment balloons?
It sounds like you have track changes enabled or are showing comments inballoons
Make sure that in the Tracking section of the Review tab that you have
selected Final and not Final showing markup.
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins -WordMVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
Post by R in AZ
I can't seem to eliminate the shaded sidebar on the righthand side of each
page.  It prints out as a light gray area down the page.  Would appreciate
anyone's help with this.  Thanks.  r
Suzanne S. Barnhill
2010-03-04 17:07:44 UTC
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There's no way to do exactly what you ask, but you can accomplish what you
want with two separate print runs. For the marked-up section, choose
"Document showing markup" for "Print what." For the rest, choose "Document."
Print the relevant portions by choosing page or section ranges in the Pages
box.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"American since 1749" <***@gmail.com> wrote in message news:b8e3157d-ce50-41cb-802a-***@e7g2000yqf.googlegroups.com...
I have a similar but more complicated question: I'm preparing a
document with several sections, only one of which has or needs any
comment balloons. I need the comments in that section to print, but I
don't want the other sections in the document (the ones with no
comments) to print small to allow space for comments that don't exist
in those sections. The only solution I've found so far is separate
documents; is there a way to display and print the comment balloons
only in a single section of a document, while allowing the rest of the
document to display and print as if there were no comment balloons?
It sounds like you have track changes enabled or are showing comments inballoons
Make sure that in the Tracking section of the Review tab that you have
selected Final and not Final showing markup.
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins -WordMVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
Post by R in AZ
I can't seem to eliminate the shaded sidebar on the righthand side of each
page. It prints out as a light gray area down the page. Would appreciate
anyone's help with this. Thanks. r
American since 1749
2010-03-04 17:49:29 UTC
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Thanks, Suzanne, I appreciate the reply. That's probably no better
than keeping separate documents, though; either way, we'll have to
remember to print twice and then collate. Maybe a feature request out
of this?
Post by Suzanne S. Barnhill
There's no way to do exactly what you ask, but you can accomplish what you
want with two separate print runs. For the marked-up section, choose
"Document showing markup" for "Print what." For the rest, choose "Document."
Print the relevant portions by choosing page or section ranges in the Pages
box.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
I have a similar but more complicated question: I'm preparing a
document with several sections, only one of which has or needs anycommentballoons. I need the comments in that section to print, but I
don't want the other sections in the document (the ones with no
comments) to print small to allow space for comments that don't exist
in those sections. The only solution I've found so far is separate
documents; is there a way to display and print thecommentballoons
only in a single section of a document, while allowing the rest of the
document to display and print as if there were nocommentballoons?
It sounds like you have track changes enabled or are showing comments inballoons
Make sure that in the Tracking section of the Review tab that you have
selected Final and not Final showing markup.
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins -WordMVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
Post by R in AZ
I can't seem to eliminate the shaded sidebar on the righthand side of each
page. It prints out as a light gray area down the page. Would appreciate
anyone's help with this. Thanks. r
Suzanne S. Barnhill
2010-03-04 18:22:03 UTC
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I guess the general feeling is that in the typical document in which some
pages have markup and some don't, the constant changing of margins/font size
would be distracting. Also, document printed out with markup allow plenty of
margin space for further markup by hand.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"American since 1749" <***@gmail.com> wrote in message news:8044e79a-4031-4d07-b226-***@g10g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
Thanks, Suzanne, I appreciate the reply. That's probably no better
than keeping separate documents, though; either way, we'll have to
remember to print twice and then collate. Maybe a feature request out
of this?
Post by Suzanne S. Barnhill
There's no way to do exactly what you ask, but you can accomplish what you
want with two separate print runs. For the marked-up section, choose
"Document showing markup" for "Print what." For the rest, choose "Document."
Print the relevant portions by choosing page or section ranges in the Pages
box.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org
I have a similar but more complicated question: I'm preparing a
document with several sections, only one of which has or needs
anycommentballoons. I need the comments in that section to print, but I
don't want the other sections in the document (the ones with no
comments) to print small to allow space for comments that don't exist
in those sections. The only solution I've found so far is separate
documents; is there a way to display and print thecommentballoons
only in a single section of a document, while allowing the rest of the
document to display and print as if there were nocommentballoons?
It sounds like you have track changes enabled or are showing comments inballoons
Make sure that in the Tracking section of the Review tab that you have
selected Final and not Final showing markup.
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins -WordMVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
Post by R in AZ
I can't seem to eliminate the shaded sidebar on the righthand side of each
page. It prints out as a light gray area down the page. Would appreciate
anyone's help with this. Thanks. r
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
2010-03-05 01:15:05 UTC
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If you run the following macro, it will insert the comments in line in the
text:

Dim acomment As Comment
For Each acomment In ActiveDocument.Comments
acomment.Reference.InsertAfter " [Comment: Inserted by " &
acomment.Author & " - " & acomment.Range.Text & "]"
Next acomment

You can then print the document as Final and the comment balloons will not
appear.
--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
Post by American since 1749
I have a similar but more complicated question: I'm preparing a
document with several sections, only one of which has or needs any
comment balloons. I need the comments in that section to print, but I
don't want the other sections in the document (the ones with no
comments) to print small to allow space for comments that don't exist
in those sections. The only solution I've found so far is separate
documents; is there a way to display and print the comment balloons
only in a single section of a document, while allowing the rest of the
document to display and print as if there were no comment balloons?
It sounds like you have track changes enabled or are showing comments inballoons
Make sure that in the Tracking section of the Review tab that you have
selected Final and not Final showing markup.
--
Hope this helps.
Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.
Doug Robbins -WordMVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
Post by R in AZ
I can't seem to eliminate the shaded sidebar on the righthand side of each
page. It prints out as a light gray area down the page. Would appreciate
anyone's help with this. Thanks. r
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