These days Office comments are in a thread with replies to the original comment.Ī little reminder that Office comments don’t have to be plain text.Ĭomments can be bold italic. This makes it look like there’s more changes than there really are.

Microsoft announcement also talks about other Comments features which aren’t new at all. Though it’s having some, understandable, teething troubles Replies, and Resolved Comments The changed Comments pane starts in Word for Windows to Insiders Fast / Beta Channel v 2006 build 13006.20002) or later. Pick whichever suits you and your screen size. ‘Linked View’ is a nice addition but uses up more screen space than the Comments pane. In this view clicking on a comment displays the anchor in the document itself and the little icon in the right-margin.Ĭlicking the Comments button is supposed to switch between the two views. This gives Comments better context than the existing Comments pane or “Collab corner” where all the comments are shunted aside to top right. Microsoft hasn’t publicly given this view a name. We’re calling the new view ‘Linked Comments’ because the comments are shown linked or beside the paragraph they are about. What’s changing is a slightly different way of showing Comments. The upcoming comments changes give us two slightly different Comment views or panesĭespite what some media are saying, the Comments Pane is NOT new … far from it. The old ‘balloon’ comment view is long gone. That’s a problem because there’s no single solution that suits everyone or even a majority. The biggest problem has been creating a comments interface that suits customers.

Not a lot of control but some.įor many years, Microsoft has been changing the Comments feature with more real-time updating and to tag specific people. We’ll explain the new Comments view plus look over some of the Comments features from recent years.Īt last, users get some control over how comments appear. Microsoft continues to tinker update the Comments part of Word with yet more changes coming in Word 365.

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