I waited a loooong time for Pages to offer change tracking (for better MS Word compatibility), but now I'm beginning to regret the fulfillment of my fervent wishes. All those blue bubbles -- hundreds of them on a page in the types of papers I edit -- really slow editing down. I don't need to see each and every deletion of a space, etc. But I do need to see the comments that I'm inserting. Yet all those blue bubbles push the comments far down the page, away from their context. And if there are more than a handful of changes, the comments get tucked underneath those bubble scrolling arrows at the bottom of each page, and it's quite tedious to scroll through dozens of irrelevant blue bubbles to find the important yellow comment bubble. Forget about trying to scan several comments at once -- can't be done with all those intervening blue bubbles.
Is there any way of tracking changes but hiding the blue change bubbles while displaying the yellow comment bubbles? It seems I can turn off all bubbles, and I can turn off change tracking, but I need to be able to track changes and see comments. Surely, there's a way to do this....the gods forbid that there isn't and I have to go back to using MS Word!
MacBook Pro 2gHz, iMac G5 20" 2 gHz, iMac G4 17" 8000 mHz, Powerbook G4 Ti,
Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Well, I guess I can't use it for the hard core editing. I really, really like it otherwise, and it's definitely getting there as a Word replacement for most activities. However, I don't know about others -- I can't really afford more than one office suite. ;-P
NeoOffice is nice, but again, sub-standard comments support. I guess it's sticking with MS Word still. Bummer.
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