Comment and Changes pane auto-resizes

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Comment and Changes pane auto-resizes

Working with Pages 5.6.1 on El Capitan.

This is a fairly recent development. When I first open the Comment and Changes pane, it appears as it always has. A decent width, but not great, and seemingly no way to adjust the width. However, when I'm working, the pane will auto-resize to an even smaller width than normal. This is infuriating since, despite the fact that you get a resize cursor when hovering over the pane, I can't make it any bigger nor even get it back to the size it normally is. The only fix I can see is to actually quit Pages and restart. Is there something I'm missing? Is anyone else having this bug? Do you think a delete and reinstall is the way to go?

Andy

OS X El Capitan (10.11.2)

Posted on Feb 5, 2016 2:33 PM

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Answer 1

Feb 5, 2016 2:59 PM in response to eriah

Click on the right edge of Pages and drag to the right. You will see the gray background open up on the left, adjacent to the comment and changes panel. Now, you can enlarge it further to the right, because the document is not blocking that effort.

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Answer 2

eriah Author

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Feb 5, 2016 3:34 PM in response to VikingOSX

Thanks for responding. But the document was not blocking the comments pane. I was in full screen mode when I encountered the problem. I left full screen mode to try your fix, but even with a large amount of gray area between the pane and document, I can't change the width of that pane. I've never been able to. Of course it's never been much of a problem until it started resizing to this ridiculous width.

Here's what it looks like after I quit Pages and restarted.

Problem is, I don't know what causes it to auto-resize, and I can't get it back to normal without quitting the program and restarting.

Andy

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