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Many people like to use the comments feature of Word to embed comments (what used to be called annotations) within a document. When you later move your mouse pointer over the top of a comment indicator in the document, a small pop-up box appears that shows the comment associated with the indicator.
The normal color for the comment box is a pale yellow, to supposedly mimic the appearance of the paper sticky notes that we all know and love so well. What if you don't like pale yellow sticky notes, however? In that case, you may be looking for a way to change the color Word uses for the comment box.
The news here is both bad and good. It is bad because Word doesn't have a way to change just the color of the comment box. The good news is that Word relies on the system colors set in Windows to determine what color the comment boxes should be. Word uses the ToolTip color setting for the comment boxes. If you want to change that setting, follow these steps:
Now your comment boxes will be the color you selected. In addition, since you changed the ToolTip color, all your ToolTips in Word and all your other programs will be the same color, as well.
Tip #1429 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003
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