Edit Comments Section In Word For Mac

If you’re sharing or collaborating on a Word document, you might want an easy way to add comments to parts of text. Here we look at how to add comments to documents in Word 2010. We previously looked at how to and it allows you to make comments in Word documents easily. Here we take a look at how to do it in Word 2010 which is essentially the same concept but a bit different. Insert Comment To insert a comment in a document, highlight the area of text where you want to comment on.

Click the Review tab on the Ribbon then click New Comment. That opens up a balloon pointing to the highlighted text you can leave your comment in. You can leave as many comments as needed in the document, in this example we created three comments in different areas. Now you or anyone you’re sharing the document with will be able to read the comments. Review Comments You might want to just take a look at the comments you’ve made in the Reading Pane. Again click the Review tab and then select Reading Pane, and how you want them to display, either Horizontal or Vertically. Here is an example of reviewing the comments in Horizontal View.

In word processing software such as Microsoft Word, notations can refer to comments placed on a document about a section of text or hidden formatting marks and symbols revealed as needed to give a. Just highlight the existing comment and click the New Comment button. Then you can leave another comment to the existing comment underneath it. Delete Comments. After corrections have been made or you change your mind about something, you might want to delete the comment. Just highlight the comment you want gone and click the Delete button.

You can see the comments, when they were made, and by whom. Click on an individual comment and it will take you to the section in the document where it’s at. Here is what it would look like to have your comments show in the Reading Pane Vertically on the left side. You can choose whichever view works best for you. Leave Comments to the Comments Sometimes you might want to respond to a comment and can do so by leaving one to the existing comment. This feature really comes in handy when collaborating on documents and for brainstorming.

Just highlight the existing comment and click the New Comment button. . Then you can leave another comment to the existing comment underneath it.

Delete Comments After corrections have been made or you change your mind about something, you might want to delete the comment. Just highlight the comment you want gone and click the Delete button. Or you can select the dropdown and delete all comments from the document too. Creating comments in Word 2007 & 2010 is like it was back in the day when the your college professor had the red pen and would circle text in a term paper and make comments on the side of the paper.

Using them in Word 2010 is a lot easier and certainly much neater as well.

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