I have been using comments in older versions of PPT and used to be able to turn them off (hide) for the slide show. This allowed a printing of handouts and using them as scripts for my technicians. XP has the markups and when one is inserted on the first slide, it allows the comments to also be turned off, or so I thought. They don't show up in slide sorter or editing, but when the slide show runs, a shadowed versuin of the text appears on the slides. How do I really turn the comments off. Another option would be to edit the "new" comments font so it's readable on a handout. I can't find where to edit the fonts in the "new" comments.