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Short version: Does anyone know how I can have my comments numbered in my Word docs while I'm working on them? Currently, I can only see the numbers when I go into Print Preview.
Longer version: I have a computer that, prior to this weekend, had a large D drive and a 256 GB SSD for the C drive. The C drive was getting full fast.
mneme and I discussed options, and decided to go with a risky but interesting one: replace the C drive with a larger one.
We bought the larger one, cloned the original onto it, and did magic so that the clone would be able to use all its space.
mneme opened the computer up and swapped in new for old.
We then hit a snag in having the computer boot from its hard drive, though all indications showed everything was there and in working order. So mneme suggested updating from Windows 10 to Windows 11, cautioning that this would blow the stuff on the C drive now in the computer away. I okayed this, having already done all the backing things up I could.
It worked. We started getting programs back up and running, but hit a snag with Microsoft Office. We had several options, and mneme suggested we try the obvious one first: check with the Microsoft Store to see if it remembered that I legit owned a copy of Microsoft Office for personal use. One more current than the version I have CDs for, also legitimately, which was one of our backup plans.
It worked. Of course, all of my settings needed to be restored, and I suspect I've still got a few more that'll pop up. But there's one setting that continues to elude.
I'm an editor. I use comments. I use them the way that works for me. And this involves numbering them consecutively, something that Office 2003 had no trouble whatsoever with.
But companies seem to think that changing things is something they have to do, even if it's not broken, and they also think that letting a customer have an easy way to just go back to the previous way -- the one they are used to using and that works for them -- is a Silly Thing to Do. And this was true of the version of Microsoft Office I upgraded to last year.
But, last year, we found a way to number the comments. Yay!
But, I've now downloaded Word again from the Microsoft Store, so it has "helpfully" upgraded how comments are done. And precisely how to find certain commands. This is the opposite of "yay".
mneme did some online searching and walked me through steps that quickly came to resemble what I did last year. But... these steps still won't let me see that I'm working on, say, comment number 37.
I can see the numbers of the comments if I'm in Print Preview -- a state in which I am not actually working on the file.
mneme has been unable to find anything online about how to get my numbers back in my comments when I'm actually working on the file -- or at least, a way that does not involve writing code. For a program I bought so that I wouldn't need to write code. (For those wondering, I don't consider myself a programmer. I can do html markup and at one point, I knew reg exps. This was very useful in understanding why mneme answered certain questions the way he did, but does not make me a programmer.)
Tomorrow, I want to do my work, my editing work. So, I've declared that the point mneme got me to has to be good enough. But if anyone knows how to get the numbers back on the comments when I'm working on the file, let me know?
Longer version: I have a computer that, prior to this weekend, had a large D drive and a 256 GB SSD for the C drive. The C drive was getting full fast.
mneme and I discussed options, and decided to go with a risky but interesting one: replace the C drive with a larger one.
We bought the larger one, cloned the original onto it, and did magic so that the clone would be able to use all its space.
mneme opened the computer up and swapped in new for old.
We then hit a snag in having the computer boot from its hard drive, though all indications showed everything was there and in working order. So mneme suggested updating from Windows 10 to Windows 11, cautioning that this would blow the stuff on the C drive now in the computer away. I okayed this, having already done all the backing things up I could.
It worked. We started getting programs back up and running, but hit a snag with Microsoft Office. We had several options, and mneme suggested we try the obvious one first: check with the Microsoft Store to see if it remembered that I legit owned a copy of Microsoft Office for personal use. One more current than the version I have CDs for, also legitimately, which was one of our backup plans.
It worked. Of course, all of my settings needed to be restored, and I suspect I've still got a few more that'll pop up. But there's one setting that continues to elude.
I'm an editor. I use comments. I use them the way that works for me. And this involves numbering them consecutively, something that Office 2003 had no trouble whatsoever with.
But companies seem to think that changing things is something they have to do, even if it's not broken, and they also think that letting a customer have an easy way to just go back to the previous way -- the one they are used to using and that works for them -- is a Silly Thing to Do. And this was true of the version of Microsoft Office I upgraded to last year.
But, last year, we found a way to number the comments. Yay!
But, I've now downloaded Word again from the Microsoft Store, so it has "helpfully" upgraded how comments are done. And precisely how to find certain commands. This is the opposite of "yay".
mneme did some online searching and walked me through steps that quickly came to resemble what I did last year. But... these steps still won't let me see that I'm working on, say, comment number 37.
I can see the numbers of the comments if I'm in Print Preview -- a state in which I am not actually working on the file.
mneme has been unable to find anything online about how to get my numbers back in my comments when I'm actually working on the file -- or at least, a way that does not involve writing code. For a program I bought so that I wouldn't need to write code. (For those wondering, I don't consider myself a programmer. I can do html markup and at one point, I knew reg exps. This was very useful in understanding why mneme answered certain questions the way he did, but does not make me a programmer.)
Tomorrow, I want to do my work, my editing work. So, I've declared that the point mneme got me to has to be good enough. But if anyone knows how to get the numbers back on the comments when I'm working on the file, let me know?