Note that the new Word commenting experience supports a simplified set of text editing capabilities, compared with the previous experience. Comments are slow to open. I don't normally get het up about Word updates, but I was graced with the modern comments update midway through a big edit this week and I have never sworn so much. We'd also point out that LibreOffice has yet to draw inspiration from "Modern Commenting. Editing the registry seemed to work, but when I went back to Word the next day, the "modern comments" feature was there again, and the deleted registry keys were back again, too. I just really need my lines back. Restore Solutions: OMG more forced downloads and apps MEH. 2. If you use Word, and unless you have your updates turned off, theres a good chance you have them by now, or will soon.*. Click Yes or No below. It would be nice to be able to just say no to the updates! Comments. Not something that is necessarily a huge issue but it is annoying and I can't see the purpose for keeping a comment selected when it's posted and non-responsive. ), Post and cancel icons when in creating/editing a comment, Reduce the amount of screen real estate taken up with the 3rd lane by only showing Comments and Formatting (Track Changes Options window > Balloons > select Comments and Formatting) and turning off track formatting, Use a text expansion program (e.g. You made my day! I have a number of problems with the useability of these comments, based on the way I have used them in the past (for context, I am an educator and primarily use them when marking student assignments). So much functionality has been lost, while other functions that used to take no time at all now require several clicks to access. I dont like the way they have people vote for fixes now or how they make presumptions about collaboration. There are more steps to use them than before. Figure 1. Figure 2. Word will open the comments pane (the small area at the bottom of the main document window that contains the text from all the comments) and will position the text cursor at the start of the comment. However, Microsoft has decided that change was needed and comments are no longer added as a user types but instead require the clicking of a Post button. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Without these cookies we cannot provide you with the service that you expect. yw71: Wow, 15 years to 'supports iOS'. I am a Mac user. Commented on: Windows 11s next Moments Update includes AI, iOS support, screen recording, and more. When will they do it. Formatting is next to impossible and many many other features are not available. To get the old comment features back: Select File > Options > General > turn OFFthe Enable modern commentscheck box. Some of these comments are up to a paragraph, or contain URLs to instructions for certain things. Send in your questions for Kareem to. NO idea how it got back, but good to have. Modern comments are a lot like the comments in Google Docs. Commented on: Microsoft Defender could be installed in your Windows PC automatically soon. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Method 2: Modify "Comment Text" Style At first, click "Home" tab. Yep! I'm using Word for Mac 16.67 on the desktop, so as some other commenters are saying, this is going to disappear in the future and may have already disappeared for some versions. "Some people simply receive a document, revise, comment, then return. The Comments pane is in fact the reason I now prefer modern comments over classic comments for reviewing longer documents. Reg reader Nick H noted: "Comments now seem to float around randomly. It looks like there were a number of keys that were deleted when removing those two entries (screenshots below). Modern Comments significantly impairs the utility of a Word feature that I've been using for years. Really! With modern comments, you no longer have to worry about your comments being seen by others before you're finished editing them. In those appswhere the old comments tended to get lost in the busy graphical interfacethe Comments pane is a giant step forward. Unfortunately, we must expect that the option will disappear some day. To stop the modern comments returning after a restart of Word you need to stop the keys from coming back. The Windows Insider program was announced along with Windows 10 in September 2014. (When Words classic comments have been set to display in the margins, theres no option not to show formatting there also.) It all seems reasonable enough, but for those who live and breathe document comments it is clearly a step too far as a glimpse of the more than 150, er, comments on Microsoft's post makes clear. Word for Mac. Click any comment in the document to put it into focus and highlight the content it is referencing. Oct 26 2022 That happens to me all the time. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. Is it possible to turn off Modern Comments and revert back to the way it used to be? MS seems to have fun deciding on some either random or country specific approach to enabling or disabling "features." Put your cursor where it needs to bein the document or in a commentand start typing or deleting or finding and replacing or whatever. Existing files with comments will not be affected Modern comments can't be read by PowerPoint 2019 or older, including subscription and perpetual versions. The main issue is that autotext is no longer supported in a comment. Why not allow multiple to be in draft? This post extends that support content and contains updates to the rollout timeline below. The list of problems with modern comments continues to grow. This also opens the comments pane. I un-checked that box, closed Word, reopened Word and presto, back to classic commenting. Things move fast and i am old.. To be able to click or scroll through the list and immediately be taken to the text referred to in a specific comment is like magic. Microsoft Teams first launched in March of 2017 and has picked up many new features since then. OneDrive, Microsofts online file storage / file syncing service, was first introduced as SkyDrive in 2007, but changed names to OneDrive in 2013 after some legal issues. Method 2: Place your cursor in the comment or the text connected to the comment and then select the Delete menu arrow in the Review tab. For more info and to customize your settings, hit Check out our How To section and get the most out of your setup! Select Accept or Reject . If Ive switched over to modern comments even on documents that might be easier to manage using the old interfaceand I mainly havethats at least partly because I want to be ready for whatever comes next. Why should I change to problematic upgrades? In Word for Mac, there is a checkbox for Modern Comments in Word/Preferences/General. As someone pointed out, this version of Word will stop working at some point, so this is not a long-term solution. (LogOut/ I found the numbering of comments a very useful feature, especially when there were multiple comments on one page. OMG more forced downloads and apps MEH. Sharing best practices for building any app with .NET. Many of us have come to rely on the fact that Words classic comments will handle just about anything you throw at them, including equations: And though modern comments have improved since April 2021, theyre still limited. It aligns how comments work across Office on different endpoints, so that you and your team can rely on a consistent experience regardless of whether youre using Word, Excel, or PowerPoint on any platform, the company explained. Re: Can I remove Modern Comments and revert back. It has added an extra space to the side of the document, which wouldn't be an issue except that making any formatting changes under tracked change, which I often also do when marking assignments, goes into the ORIGINAL pane where comments use to be, widening the document even further (extra space for formatting, then another extra space for comments). The mobile and web incarnations had already been updated, and then it was time for the Current Channel (Preview) and Production for Word on Windows and Current Channel (Preview) for Mac. These cookies collect information in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used. I'm an editor and the only one on the doc when I edit, and I could really do without the extra work :\. no option to revert to classic comments, with their previous functionality, including an option to turn off collaboration features. It used to be in the Preferences dialog box. ", Another critic wailed: "I am truly at a loss for words as to why this seemed like a good idea to your development team.". 12:44 PM For the moment, many Word versions include an option to turn off modern comments. Before that happens, Im hopeful that equations and some of the other key missing features will be restored (including direct access to the font and symbols dialog boxes from within comments). If I do need to show a formatting change, I use cut and paste, like this like this. Thanks for your comment! Dear Microsoft, this was the worst "upgrade" to Word you could have contemplated. Open the View menu and select Comments. Home tab in the ribbon 2. After to you delete the following keys again. For example, say I notice that each time I refer to an author named Smyth, Ive typed Smith by mistake. My computer screen isn't large enough to cope with the extra width. Why not allow multiple to be in draft? The most obvious thing that makes Words modern comments different from its classic comments is that you now need to post a comment before you can return to the document. I know this is an old post, but I found it, so in case others are seeking: to edit a comment in Mac OS, you can assign a shortcut to the command AnnotationEdit (And why is it not CommentEdit?!?! Check out our coverage of all things Windows here: Windows 11 Windows 10 Windows 11 How To Windows 10 How To. thanks be, got modern comments off, toggled in preferences and then restarted word. It would be nice to be able to just say no to the updates! Change), You are commenting using your Facebook account. I don't share my documents, so being able to edit comments and post when they're finalised is not particularly useful for me, as no one else is looking at them until I send the document. For example, if I try to add a comment elsewhere in the document before posting the one thats in progressor before clicking the X, which will abandon a new comment or leave an existing comment uneditedWord will put me back into that original comment, which will now have a message for me in red: Please post your comment (Ctrl+Enter).. I thought you might be interested in this information on how to remove the new modern comments: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/introducing-modern-comments-in-microsoft-word/bc-p/2350270#M1793, Alexandra Peace AlexandraPeace.com Editor/Proofreader/Indexer President, Indexing Society of Canada / Socit canadienne dindexation (ISC/SCI) member of Editors Canada and Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading, [] the introduction of the hated Modern Comments, Ive been very mindful that the Word 365 version Im using might show different icons [], [] I did some extensive testing of Modern Comments after writing this blog post and heres a summary of my results: https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2021/05/16/word-testing-modern-comments-and-issues-found/ [], Thanks for this list. From Tuesday 5 October 2021, a new look is be available to Microsoft 365 and Office 2021. To go back and edit that comment (or any other comment in the document), I can simply click into it and start typing. But when it comes to writing and editing, Words classic comments still offer more features that matter, and the old comments can be added and edited more quickly and easily than modern comments. I have a number of problems with the useability of these comments, based on the way I have used them in the past (for context, I am an educator and primarily use them when marking student assignments). Hi, Im Kallie Bracken, a Program Manager on the Word team. I've disabled updates but wonder if that in itself will cause issues. Sometimes in the course of writing one comment, I want to comment on something else first and then come back to the previous comment. It's incredibly helpful to be able to insert these quickly and will increase my marking time substantially if I can't use them. Well, sorry, it's the law. Well, this was the company that gave us Clippy after all. Tip: To review changes in the document without accepting or rejecting them, select Next or Previous. :-) ), but Ctrl+z returns you to the characters typed EXCEPT for the last character, which it deletes; if you then add that character again BECAUSE YOU WANT THE CHARACTER and NOT the emoji, it reverts to an emoji again and you cant get just the characters, Conventions such as (c) and (e) to create the copyright or Euro symbols dont work at all in MC and you only get the characters typed. If you use Word, and unless you have your updates turned off, there's a good chance you have them by now, or will soon. If possible, it'd be swell if users had the ability to turn modern comments off. Words commenting feature is a copyeditors bread and butter. Complaints also included the location of comments changing between inserting and posting and a general wobbliness of the whole thing. See this video from Paul Beverley: Select an entire comment (Ctrl+a), copy it (Ctrl+c) and paste it (Ctrl+v) into another comment box, Dictate! OnMSFT.com brings you all the latest news on Windows 10 and beyond. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. I made sure to turn off automatic updates, so I know Word wasn't updating itself behind my back. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Not something that is necessarily a huge issue but it is annoying and I can't see the purpose for keeping a comment selected when it's posted and non-responsive. To delete a comment, right-click it and select Delete Comment. Being signed in with a work or school account means @ mentions in the comment will fire off notifications via email (with a link to the document in question and the option to add yet more comments). I don't share my documents, so being able to edit comments and post when they're finalised is not particularly useful for me, as no one else is looking at them until I send the document. My typing has evolved to use those features. Don't worry, it's not a major change. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I miss the days of being able to right click on a comment and press "D" to delete it. - edited This means you may need to remember TWO codes for the same thingone for AC within the document, and one for PE in the Comments. You can look up build numbers at Version numbers of update branches for Office 365 clients. Select the Options button in the Styles task pane. For example, I have an AC and a PE code of .epa for Environmental Protection Authority. If that is the case, you need to delete the keys and then remove your Full Control from the key above by first disabling inheritance so Word cannot recreate it. If you later need to review all of the resolved comments, click the. :). Thank you so much! I am still using older versions of Office, but I learned from your post about some very valuable features of Classic Comments. Its nonsense-they let the kids loose, and they are not writers. Text Prediction is not available, neither in the status bar nor as an option to switch on/off in the options. However, I can't click out of it to finish, I have to click or ctrl+Enter to post. Oct 26 2022 Who was asking for that? Everything in Word else *seems* be working OK just curious. Formatting in Modern Comments: Beyond Google Docs. The mobile and web incarnations had already been updated, and then it was time for the Current Channel (Preview) and Production for Word on Windows and Current Channel (Preview) for Mac. They allow us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our sites. I also can't just click INTO it to edit, I have to click on more buttons. Rediculous. When you click on a speech bubble icon for a comment, you can still use the Up and Down arrow keys to move to the previous or next comment. Updates to improve accessibility features will be rolling out soon. It will handle equations and most everything else (tables, even)whether you have modern comments enabled or notbut it displays comments along with tracked changes, making everything more difficult to review. Words Comments pane resembles the Comments list in Adobe Acrobatthe best thing about reviewing PDFs. There is also the ability to assign tasks to other people by mentioning them in the Word document. Be sure to save any open documents. I had the lines connecting comments to the texts recently disappear and it is extremely frustrating. Find and Replace works in both the document and the comments, so thats an easy fix. And though my own settings in Word wont determine how my documents display for others, I prefer to underline additions, strike through deletions, and show comments in the margins: But I turn off the option to track formatting. Of course, its gone now, probably because it * was * useful. Not something that is necessarily a huge issue but it is annoying and I can't see the purpose for keeping a comment selected when it's posted and non-responsive. It looks like most people will currently have the option to switch it off, in File>Options>General, but it's nice to know the images aren't completely gone in the new version, just hidden in the Review pane. (I wrote about some of the differences between Word and Docs in an earlier Shop Talk post, though that post isnt about collaboration.). It has added an extra space to the side of the document, which wouldn't be an issue except that making any formatting changes under tracked change, which I often also do when marking assignments, goes into the ORIGINAL pane where comments use to be, widening the document even further (extra space for formatting, then another extra space for comments). It's incredibly helpful to be able to insert these quickly and will increase my marking time substantially if I can't use them. Method 1: Use Shortcuts To begin with, put insertion pointer at the start of the first comment text. Click on Save. thanks for people writing this thread, helped save so much time!!!! We cover everything from the Windows Insider program to Windows 10X. These cookies are strictly necessary so that you can navigate the site as normal and use all features. I have a number of problems with the useability of these comments, based on the way I have used them in the past (for context, I am an educator and primarily use them when marking student assignments). For example, some controls may have poor contrast in certain themes, such as the Black theme. Which is annoying. I have a number of problems with the useability of these comments, based on the way I have used them in the past (for context, I am an educator and primarily use them when marking student assignments). Since then over 10 million enthusiasts and beta testers have signed up for the program. This allows you to temporarily revert the comments experience to the legacy comments model as the new experience continues to improve and evolve. 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