How to turn off Modern Comments and get the old comment features back As of 2, I have released DocTools CommentManager 3.0 that works with both classic comments and Modern Comments.Īs explained above, the information in this article covers the comment features as they worked before Modern Comments. Unfortunately, I experienced that many features in the add-in didn't work with Modern Comments. In this article, I link to my DocTools CommentManager add-in in relation to specific features. You can read about Modern Comments and see a lot of user comments in the Microsoft article Introducing Modern Comments in Microsoft Word. I hope Microsoft will listen to the users and either implement an option to use the old comment features (Classic Comments) or fix all the many issues that have been reported with Modern Comments. The switch to Modern Comments has frustrated many users and made many users angry.

Close to the end of 2021, I still do not see Modern Comments in my version of Microsoft 365.

Personally, I had to install the Insider Beta version of Office on a computer to get access to Modern Comments so I could test it. Modern Comments have not been rolled out to all users yet. 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. Learn how to add comments in Word, how to remove comments in Word, print without comments, change font size of comments, etc.

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