How to Use Comments in Microsoft Word (Modern Comments)

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  • Опубліковано 18 сер 2024
  • Learn how to use comments in Microsoft Word. Specially, we will be using the new “modern” comments in Word for Microsoft 365.
    Chapters:
    00:00 Introduction
    00:49 How to Insert Comments
    01:51 Four Alternative Ways to Insert Comments
    02:27 How to View Comments
    03:37 How to Reply to Comments
    04:00 How to Resolve Comments
    04:44 How to Delete Comments
    05:57 How to Temporarily Turn Off Modern Comments
    📝 Companion Blog Post/Transcript for this Video
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    How to Use Comments in Microsoft Word (Modern Comments)
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  • @erinwrightwriting
    @erinwrightwriting  2 роки тому +2

    All the steps shown here are listed with images on my website at erinwrightwriting.com/comments-in-microsoft-word/. Thank you for watching!

    • @ExtraDryingTime
      @ExtraDryingTime 2 роки тому

      I had to turn off modern comments because the incredible amount of screen space it used up, plus it was great to have a line connecting the comment to the word(s) being commented on. Here's hoping these issues get fixed!

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  2 роки тому

      @@ExtraDryingTime Thank you for watching! I do understand the frustration of not having the connector line.

    • @askani21
      @askani21 Рік тому

      Hi! Do you know how to add my email address to my revision profile? Right now, my revision profile name and initials appear, but nobody can reply to my comments because it does not link to my email. I can't find where to put my email.

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому +1

      @@askani21 Thank you so much for watching! Normally emails aren't required to reply to comments in Word. However, to get an email notification that someone has replied and @mentioned you, everyone involved has to be on a school or organizational account. Here is an article from Microsoft Support that you may find helpful: support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/use-mention-in-comments-to-tag-someone-for-feedback-644bf689-31a0-4977-a4fb-afe01820c1fd.

    • @askani21
      @askani21 Рік тому

      @@erinwrightwriting Oh ok, now I understand! Thanks!

  • @WPCompanion
    @WPCompanion 2 місяці тому

    Hi Erin. Thank you for making this very helpful video. Keep up the good work!

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  2 місяці тому

      I appreciate your kind words! Thank you for watching!

  • @williambartholomew484
    @williambartholomew484 Рік тому

    I experienced a momentary lapse of reason at 3:43 explaining how to reply to comments because my name is Bartholomew. Aside from that, I discovered everything I wanted to know from your tutorial. Thank you

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      I am so glad to hear that! (Bartholomew is my beloved Shih Tzu's name. 😊)

  • @user-fq1rl5ev8c
    @user-fq1rl5ev8c Місяць тому

    Thank you for the video!

  • @waynekey1
    @waynekey1 Рік тому

    Great precise and useable information! Thanks!

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      I appreciate your positive feedback! Thank you for watching!

  • @JSnoop31
    @JSnoop31 Рік тому +1

    Thank you very much for the information on how to turn off Modern Comments in Word. It's terrible and was driving me crazy!

  • @cesara7478
    @cesara7478 Рік тому

    Great video. Thks for sharing!

  • @VictoriaBazeley
    @VictoriaBazeley 4 місяці тому

    Thanks for this info

  • @ukm49
    @ukm49 Рік тому

    its really helpful . thank you

  • @debbiemiller2611
    @debbiemiller2611 8 місяців тому

    I will always love Bruce and I will all ways love my brothers ed and Oliver
    And my sister gen😊

  • @petergilbert144
    @petergilbert144 8 місяців тому

    On list view I hit move and it popped out comments to a new windiw. Couldn't find anyway to re-doc it to the right of the page and got no help with from the internet. Thanks to the end of your video, turning off modern comments fixed it and put it back to the old way that just works the best. Why does it seem that Microsoft keeps ruining their products and killing off the old versions that are so much better than their new junk?

  • @ayeeitsgill
    @ayeeitsgill Рік тому +1

    Is there a way to remove the highlight color whenever you make a comment? I want each color to be different for every comment. I dont know how to do it

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      That is a very interesting question. I don't think there is a way to have each comment highlighted with a different color. However, if I stumble upon a solution, I will be sure to post something about it. Thank you so much for watching!

    • @Cincy1
      @Cincy1 Рік тому

      I am looking for the same answer.

  • @Cincy1
    @Cincy1 Рік тому

    How do you change the color of the highlighted comment text in Word 365 from purple or light purple default?

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      Thank you for watching! Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a way to change that default purple highlight connected to the new modern comments. I do hope Microsoft lets us customize the modern comments' appearance in the future.

  • @kevinortiz120
    @kevinortiz120 9 місяців тому

    What program do you use to record and edit your videos? Greetings!

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  9 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching! I record my audio with the Window's Sound Recorder app and then record and edit the screen with Camtasia.

  • @GayleGrantDocGrant
    @GayleGrantDocGrant 11 місяців тому

    What is the difference between a 'modern comment' vs another type of MS Word for Mac comment? Thanks

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  11 місяців тому +1

      Thank you for watching! Modern comments are part of Microsoft 365 in both Mac and PC. There are many differences between Modern comments and the legacy system. However, the biggest differences, in my opinion, are that you have to press the Send button post them and they are no longer controlled by Word's styles.

    • @GayleGrantDocGrant
      @GayleGrantDocGrant 11 місяців тому +1

      Thanks..IMHO Word has gotten worse and more inconvient since the 2016 version..the removed comment numbering which renders this program USELESS with multiple contributors on a longer document. This moronic comments item w/having to hit 'send' for each post is a downgrade if anything. I wish they would fix this lousy program and start listening to their customers..we have all been complaining about this for YEARS. If there is ever a better, more widely used alternative, MS will have no one left!@@erinwrightwriting

  • @Grayto
    @Grayto Рік тому

    For some reason my word comments ceased to appear in balloons in the margin and appeared along with the other notations in tracked changes on the page, which made it SO much easier to do comments. However, this chagned on its own to comments in balloons/margins. Do you know how to revert his?

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      Thank you so much for watching! I'm afraid I need a bit of clarification about your issue. Are the comment no longer appearing on the left side of your screen?

    • @Grayto
      @Grayto Рік тому

      @@erinwrightwriting They do. I may be reffering to an older version. Lacking a better way to explain, I noticed in later versions of Word, comments appear outside the "white space" of the document. Whereas, there are some versions where the comment appear within the white space. This is troublesome sometimes because you cant directly see what you are typing comments and sometimes have to shift view or zoom out to see them. Comments in the white space keeps eveythinng more narrow. Perhaps this is outside the scope of you video, but if you have any idea how to change this, help is appreciated.

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      @@Grayto Thank you for the clarification. You may want to experiment with the comment's contextual and list views to see if that improves the viewing experience. To do so, select Review > Show Comments menu arrow > Contextual or List. I hope that helps!

  • @JulieKennedy-lj8ox
    @JulieKennedy-lj8ox Рік тому

    Modern comments are enabled but when I reply, the comment is not nested so it is difficult to tell which comments are connected. Any idea how to fix this?

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      Hello, Julie. Thank you for watching! Unfortunately, I don't know what is causing your reply comments not to nest. I just ran a test on my end and didn't experience that issue. Please consider reporting the issue to Microsoft in case it is a known glitch. I wish you all the best!

  • @CookieMcWoo
    @CookieMcWoo 5 місяців тому

    I just want to edit my comment, but there is no little pencil icon in my comment box with which to engage editing. Also, I can’t delete the comment to just start over. Help!?

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  5 місяців тому

      I am sorry to hear you are having trouble. Which version of Word are you using?

  • @DebarghyaPaul
    @DebarghyaPaul Рік тому

    Can the modern comments be turned off also for the Word for Mac OS?

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      Absolutely! I have a Short showing the process: ua-cam.com/users/shortscPqPvOZx6ag. Thank you for watching!

    • @DebarghyaPaul
      @DebarghyaPaul Рік тому

      @@erinwrightwriting Thank You. I have already seen your shorts, but it looks like Microsoft has now removed the option to turn off modern comments. Thank you once again!

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      @@DebarghyaPaul Thank you for the update!

  • @user-kj4no8nk1u
    @user-kj4no8nk1u Рік тому

    What is the "link comment" in the elipsis in the comments

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      Great question! I believe "Link to comment" is supposed to create a hyperlink that you can share with other reviewers so they can go directly to your comment. However, I have yet to get it to work and haven't been able to locate any documentation about it in the Microsoft Support site.

  • @mohammedamair5184
    @mohammedamair5184 3 місяці тому

    How to delete the content words

  • @20kt20
    @20kt20 5 місяців тому

    how can we number comments, so that you can refer to a specific one?

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  5 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching! Unfortunately, Word no longer offers the option to number comments as it did in older versions of the software. I do hope that is something Microsoft will update in the future.

    • @20kt20
      @20kt20 5 місяців тому

      @@erinwrightwritingI found someone online who suggested changing the comment style format to include numbering, but it doesn't seem to work if you are commenting on an existing document (someone else's document)
      Do you know a way to make that work? thnx

  • @vilaschavan3428
    @vilaschavan3428 Рік тому

    Could you please suggest how to add email into the comment box

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому +1

      Thank you for watching! Do you want to add a link so people can email you or are you looking to add existing email text into the comment?

    • @vilaschavan3428
      @vilaschavan3428 Рік тому

      @@erinwrightwriting I want to add an email into the comment box as reference so that one could open it and go through that email. It would be grateful if you could show how to do it. Many thanks in advance.

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  Рік тому

      @@vilaschavan3428 Thank you for the clarification. The safest way to give others access to the email would be to save it as a PDF in cloud storage and then paste the link to the PDF in the cloud storage directly into the comment.

  • @carlbenekritis8224
    @carlbenekritis8224 10 місяців тому

    Is downloading your site free?

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  10 місяців тому

      Thank you for watching! All the information on my website erinwrightwriting.com is free.

  • @mohammedamair5184
    @mohammedamair5184 3 місяці тому

    How to delete content

    • @erinwrightwriting
      @erinwrightwriting  3 місяці тому

      Thank you for watching! To delete content in Word, click and drag your mouse to select the text and then press the Delete key on your keyboard. Alternatively, you can place your cursor at the end of the content you want to delete and then repeatedly press the Backspace key on your keyboard. I wish you all the best with your Word project!

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