I am writing in regards to a topic that I have seem posted in many other forums regarding no text appearing when typing in Word 365 for Mac. I’m having an issue where my text is not showing up when I type. I The cursor appears, I type, but there is no text. In this thread, you suggested reinstalling Word, but I have done that DOZENS of times, and the problem keeps re-occuring.
I have even restored my Mac to factory defaults and re-installed Office, but I'm still having this issue. We have 3 different Mac computers running El Capitan, and it’s happening on all three of them, so this is a serious issue for us, and I’m sure many other users.
If you already have Word 2016 open, you can view the templates by clicking the File tab, then going to New. You can then see the templates just as you did on the start screen. As you can see, the blank document template appears first, followed by a tour of Word 2016. Enable and Use Track Changes in Word 2016. I prefer the old way of handling comments, as well. This new system in 2016 is way, way, way beyond what we need, and I feel terribly discouraged.
The only temporary solution I have found is to close and reopen the document several times, but this doesn't always work. Please advise me on a permanent solution to this issue.
Allow you to provide feedback in a document without changing the text or layout. You can place the cursor in the content or select content (text, images, tables, etc.) and add a comment about that part of the document. RELATED: When you add a comment to some text in a document and then click away, you may notice that there is no line connecting the comment to the text it corresponds to (as shown on the image below), until you move your mouse over the comment or put the cursor in, or select that text, again. If you want to be able to see at a glance which comments correspond to which text, without having to hover your mouse over each comment, you can easily add the lines back to the comments. There are different views for comments. In the Simple Markup view, there is no line from the text to the comment until you hover over the comment or select, or put the cursor in, the text associated with it. The All Markup view shows all the lines to the comments all the time, whether the comment or the associated text is selected or not.
So, to see all the lines to the comments, you can switch to the All Markup view. Start by clicking the “Review” tab. In the Tracking section of the Review tab, click the Display for Review drop-down list at the top of the section and select the “All Markup” option. If you don’t see the drop-down list, you may need to widen the Word window. Or, you can click on the “Tracking” button to access the options in the Tracking section.