Retaining style width area

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When I insert a comment in Normal view, Word happily resets the style width area to 0" (as it pulls up the Reviewing pane on the bottom of the screen).

There is no reason why it should -- the additional pane uses vertical, not horizontal, screen real estate.

Is there any way of suppressing this "undocumented feature" behavior?
 
Retaining style width area said:
When I insert a comment in Normal view, Word
happily resets the style width area to 0" (as it pulls
up the Reviewing pane on the bottom of the screen).

There is no reason why it should -- the additional pane
uses vertical, not horizontal, screen real estate.

Is there any way of suppressing this "undocumented feature"
behavior?
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"Undocumented feature" my foot <g>

Guess you use Word2002 then, since this particular bug (that's what I call
it) seems to be fixed in Word2003?

I find the "Reviewing pane" a pain in Word2002, since the comment you're
editing there isn't scrolled into view automatically in the document pane.

You can use the following macro, which will automatically run when you
choose "Insert > Comment" from the menu, or use the Alt+Ctrl+M shortcut:

Sub InsertAnnotation()
Selection.Comments.Add _
Range:=Selection.Range
End Sub

(The trick here is that the macro is called the same as the built-in
command. Therefore the macro hijacks the command, and the menu and keyboard
shortcuts still work)

Go to "Tools > Macro > Macros", create a macro with the name
"InsertAnnotation", and replace its code with the code above.

This macro will take you to the Comment pane instead of the Reviewing pane.
That works much better in Word2002, IMO.
And it doesn't show your bug with the style area.

The comment button with the dropdown arrow in the reviewing toolbar uses
another command, but you could use "Tools > Customize..." to put the simple
comment button onto the toolbar.

Greetings,
Klaus
 
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