I receive an email from a friend:

Drummond,
As my Word expert, how do I turn off the “balloon” captioning of redline changes?

I think, “Good question. I have no idea. I’ve often wondered that myself.” I’m about to start typing that answer to his email when I remember The Incredible Internet Answer Machine

I open a browser tab and type into the Google Search Bar “Microsoft Word bal…”

Google’s AutoSuggest completes it to “Microsoft Word balloons”.

I click Search.

In .25 seconds the answer is back and the second entry on the list is:

“How to turn off balloons for comments and tracking changes in Word“

.25 seconds. My brain doesn’t even think that fast.