Modern Comments work quite differently than comments in Word have been working for years. Microsoft has introduced what they call Modern Comments. If you are using Word for Microsoft 365, you may have experienced that the comment features in Word have changed recently. Since then, Microsoft has implemented a much requested feature for turning off Modern Comments. I added this information about Modern Comments in May 2021. Part of the information in this article also applies to Word 2010 and earlier versions but the comment tools and the ways to access them differ.Ībout Microsoft's recent change to Modern Comments in Microsoft 365 The information in this article applies to Word 2013, Word 2016, Word 2019, Word 2021, and Word for Microsoft 365 on PC/Windows.
The basic information about comments applies to both the built-in comment functionality and the functionality of the DocTools CommentManager add-in.
In this article, you will learn how comments in Word work and how to use the comment tools. Word has a number of built-in tools dedicated to comments. When finished, all comments can easily be deleted. Different people can add comments and reply to other people’s comments. Comments are especially useful in the editing and reviewing process of a Word document. Comments are saved with the document and travel with the document if you share it with others. In Word, you can use comments to add notes to the document content. My OS and word processing needs are very, very simple but they are not being met by Microsoft.Learn how to add comments in Word, how to remove comments in Word, print without comments, change font size of comments, etc. It was a very expensive week and I've had it. In the past week the amount of money that I've lost on buying, installing, fixing, learning, and adjusting these systems has surpassed what I paid the new laptop and software.
When you combine Word 2013 with Windows 8, you're sunk as business person. 2013 is a big step backwards in efficiency and functionality of Track Changes. Track Changes forms the basis of my work as an editor. 2003 was fairly easy to learn intuitively. In Word 2013 I find myself making more keystrokes to get things done and spending more time hunting for things. In business applications we need to a) do things as fast and accurately as possible and b) make things as clear as possible for the client. 2003 was in my opinion a much better program. I've pretty much decided to dump Word 2013. Stefan, thanks very much for your detailed replies. I made one system change: I installed Classic Shell over Windows 8.1. None of those actions had any impact on the problem.Īdditions to appear in red in the text (This is working.)Ĭomments to appear in the right margin in a colored balloon. I also tried the document in both compatibility mode and Word 2013 mode. To distinguish the comments from other items in the margin, I tried to put the comments in red.
Neither of those options would make the comments get into an actual balloon. Under Track Changes Options I tried two different things for Balloons in All Markup View Show: Comments and Formatting, and Revisions. That makes it difficult to distinguish them from the other things in the margin (deletions and formatting). They do appear in the right margin, but not in a balloon. I can't get the comments to appear in a balloon.