How to change the font size of comment balloon in Word document?
As below screenshot shown, if you want to enlarge the font size of comment balloon in Word document, what can you do? This article will show you two methods to solve this problem.
Change the font size of comment balloon with build-in function in Word
Change the font size of comment balloon with VBA code
Change the font size of comment balloon with build-in function in Word
You can directly change the font size of balloon text in the All Styles pane in Word. Please do as follows.
1. Press the Ctrl + Alt + Shift + S keys to open the Styles pane.
2. In the Styles pane, click Options. See screenshot:
3. In the opening Style Pane Options window, select All styles from the Select styles to show drop-down list.
4. Then click OK to return to the Styles pane, please scroll down to find the Balloon Text line, click the 
button to expand the drop down list, and then click Modify. See screenshot:
5. In the Modify Style window, select a font size as you need in the Formatting section as below screenshot shown, and then click the OK button.
6. Close the Styles pane.
Then the font size of all comment balloons is changed to the specified one.
Note: The setting will apply to all comments in the future.
Change the font size of comment balloon with VBA code
This section will introduce a VBA code to help you easily change the font size of comments balloon in Word document.
1. In the document you will change the font size of comment balloon, press the Alt + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. In the window, click Insert > Module. Then copy below VBA code into the Module window.
VBA code: change the font size of comment balloon in Word
Sub SetCommentTextStyle()
'Updated by ExtendOffice 20181112
Dim objComment As Comment
Dim objDoc As Document
Dim strFontName As String
Dim strFontSize As String
Set objDoc = ActiveDocument
strFontName = InputBox("Enter text font name here: ", "Font name")
strFontSize = InputBox("Enter font size here: ", "Font size")
With objDoc
For Each objComment In .Comments
objComment.Range.Font.Name = strFontName
objComment.Range.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Balloon Text Char")
Next objComment
End With
ActiveDocument.Styles("Balloon Text").Font.Size = Val(strFontSize)
End Sub3. Press the F5 key to run the code.
4. In the first Kutools for Word dialog box, enter a new font for your comment and click OK.
5. In the second Kutools for Word dialog box, type in the font size as you need and click OK.
Then the font size of all comment balloons is changed to the specified one in current document.
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