Review comments in word

To view comments in Word, irrespective of which view is picked, open the Reviewing Pane. Click on the Review tab, and then the Tracking group. Then click on the Reviewing Pane button. You can choose either the vertical or horizontal display to open the Reviewing Pane and view comments in Word 2016.

How to view all comments in Word in one place

1. Open the Word document.
2. In the toolbar, click Review.
3. Find and click Tracking.
4. Tick All Markups.

How to edit a comment in Microsoft Word documents

1. Open the Word document.
2. Make all comments visible.
3. Click in the comment.
4. Edit the text for that comment.
5. Click out of the comment to save changes.

To hide your comments and tacked changes using the No Markup view, simply:

1. Navigate to the Review tab.
2. Open the Display Review dropdown menu (click on the downward facing arrow at the end)
3. Choose No Markup.

If you prefer to display the Reviewing Pane, follow these steps:

1. Make sure the Review tab of the ribbon is displayed.
2. In the Tracking group you see the Reviewing Pane tool. Click the down-arrow at the right of the tool.
3. Choose either Reviewing Pane Vertical or Reviewing Pane Horizontal, according to your desires.

How do I suggest edits in Word?

How to use Track Changes

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Choose the Review tab at the top of the document.
3. Either click the Track Changes button (PC) or toggle the Track Changes switch (Mac).
4. Make sure that you change ‘Simple Markup’ to ‘All Markup’ from the drop down bar next to Track Changes.

2. How can we add comments to the changes made? ​

1. Select the text or item that you want to comment on, or click to insert the cursor near the text that you want to comment on.
2. On the Review tab, under Comments, click New.
3. Type the comment text in the comment balloon.

Does Word have encryption?

Specifically, you may securely encrypt files created in Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. This encryption is controlled by a single password which only you (or others authorized to read or edit the file) should know.

Insert, delete, or change a comment

1. Select the text you want to comment on, or click at the end of the text.
2. On the Review tab, click New Comment.
3. Type your comment. Word shows your comment in a balloon in the document’s margin.

How do you redline a document?

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1. Click the Review tab.
2. Click Track Changes.
3. Click Simple Markup.
4. Click All Markup.
5. Click Show Markup.
6. Highlight text and select New Comment.
7. Edit the document and click Accept.

How do you suggest in Word?

To turn on “Suggesting” mode in Google Docs, click the “Editing” button near the top-right of the document your are editing and choose “Suggesting.”

In an opened Word document, click File > Options. In the Word Options window, make sure you are locating in the General tab, change the name in the User name box as below screenshot shown, and finally click the OK button. Now you have changed the default user name for comments in Word document.

How can you record the changes made to an original document?

You can use change marks to show added material, deleted material, and and changes to formatting.
To start recording changes:

1. Open the Budget Spreadsheet.
2. Select Edit > Changes > Record from the menu bar.
3. Begin editing the document.

Comments can be added to a document that do not change the document. You can insert a comment inside balloons that will appear in the document margins. They can also be hidden until you want to edit your paper.

Find the “Review” tab, select the “Tracking” group, and click on “Show Markup”. Rest your pointer on Balloons, and then select “Show All Revisions inline” to display comments inline and deletions with strikethroughs. Rest your pointer on a comment inside the document. The comment will appear in a ScreenTip.

How do I get rid of markup area?

The markup area appears whenever a document features comments, but its appearance is controlled by settings on the Review tab. To hide the markup area, click the Review tab. In the Tracking group, click the Display for Review button, shown here.

How do I encrypt a word?

How to encrypt text in a note

1. Open a note and highlight the text you wish to encrypt.
2. Right-click or control-click the highlighted text and select “Encrypt Selected Text”
3. Enter a passphrase into the form.
4. Once you have set the passphrase and confirm, the text will be encrypted.

How do I send an encrypted Word document?

Click the File menu, select the Info tab, and then select the Protect Document button. Click Encrypt with Password. Enter your password then click OK. Enter the password again to confirm it and click OK.

How good is word encryption?

How secure is the encryption? The encryption in Microsoft Office 2016 is considered safe (AES with 256-bit key) and takes a very long time to break with today’s machine resources if the password is secure enough. See the Username and Password page for more information on how to make secure passwords.

What is redlining in Microsoft Word?

What is redlining? When you track changes in a Microsoft Word document, a redline will appear under the text that you have made the change too. This is called redlining.

How do I redline comparison in Word?

Open the documents that you want to compare. On the Review tab, in the Compare group, click Compare. Click Compare two versions of a document (legal blackline). Under Original document, browse for the document that you want to use as the original document.

Show or Hide Comments in Microsoft Word Documents

by Avantix Learning Team | Updated January 10, 2021

Applies to: Microsoft^® Word^® 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 or 365 (Windows)

You can show and hide comments using the Review tab in the Ribbon in Microsoft Word. If you add comments in a Word document, they will appear in a markup area on the right side of pages by default. If you want to show or hide comments, you’ll need to control the display of markup. Keep in mind that comments that are hidden could be displayed by a colleague or client.

The markup area appears in Print Layout View (the default view in Word) whenever a document includes comments and its appearance can be controlled using settings on the Review tab in the Ribbon. The default markup is set to Simple Markup with comments displayed. If the markup area is not appearing on the right, click Show Comments in the Comments group. Tracked changes also appear in the markup area.

In this article, we’re assuming that the default markup options are being used (although you can change the display of markup using Track Changes Options).

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Hide comments using Display for Review

To hide comments in the markup area using Display for Review:

1. Click the Review tab in the Ribbon.
2. In the Tracking group, click Display for Review. A drop-down menu appears.
3. Select No Markup or Original to hide the markup area, including comments.

The following drop-down menu appears when you click Display for Review:

When you click Display for Review, you have the following options:

• Simple Markup which displays the markup area with comments and revisions. If you select Simple Markup and then click Show Comments in the Comments group, the markup area appears or disappears (if there are no tracked changes). If no markup area appears on the right, comments appear as speech bubbles that you can click to display the comment.
• All Markup which displays the markup area with all comments or revisions as well as lines to their locations in the text.
• No Markup which hides the markup area so that comments and revisions are hidden.
• Original which hides the markup area as well as any revisions made to the document. In regard to comments, this option is the same as No Markup.

In the following example, Simple Markup is selected as well as Show Comments in the Comments group (Print Layout View in Word 365):

In the next example, Simple Markup is selected and Show Comments is not selected  in the Comments group (Print Layout View in Word 365):

Comments appear in different ways depending on the selected view. Typically, you would change views using the View tab in the Ribbon. If you select Draft View, comments appear as the initials of the reviewer with square brackets and are highlighted with a background color. You can position the mouse pointer on the text to view the comment in a pop-up bubble. In Read Mode View, comments appear as speech bubbles to the right of the text. Simply click a bubble to view a comment.

Hide comments using Show Markup

To hide comments using Show Markup:

1. Click the Review tab in the Ribbon.
2. In the Tracking group, click Show Markup. A drop-down menu appears.
3. Select Comments to deselect comments.

The Show Markup drop-down menu includes the following options:

Show comments in the markup area

To show comments in the markup area:

1. Click the Review tab in the Ribbon.
2. In the Tracking group, click Display for Review. A drop-down menu appears.
3. Select Simple Markup or All Markup to show the markup area, including comments.
4. Click Show Markup. A drop-down menu appears.
5. Ensure Comments is selected.
6. If you selected Simple Markup, in the Comments group, select Show Comments in the Comments group.

View all comments using the Reviewing Pane

To view all comments regardless of view:

1. Click the Review tab in the Ribbon.
2. In the Tracking group, click Reviewing Pane. A drop-down menu appears.
3. Select either the horizontal or vertical display. The Reviewing Pane  appears and will displays comments and revisions.

You can click the Reviewing Pane button again in the Ribbon to hide the Reviewing Pane.

Hiding markup is not the same as accepting changes or deleting comments. You should accept or reject changes and delete comments in your Word document before you send out the final version.

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Microsoft Word — это хороший инструмент не только для набора текста и его форматирования, но и крайне удобное средство для последующего изменения, редактирования и правки. Далеко не все используют в работе так называемую «редакторскую» составляющую программы, поэтому в данной статье мы решили рассказать о том наборе инструментов, который можно и нужно использовать для таких целей.

Урок: Форматирование текста в Ворде

Инструменты, о которых пойдет речь ниже, могут пригодиться не только редактору или пишущему автору, но и всем тем пользователям, которые используют Microsoft Word для совместной работы. Последнее подразумевает, что над одним документом, его созданием и изменением, могут трудиться одновременно несколько пользователей, у каждого из которых есть постоянный доступ к файлу.

Урок: Как в Ворде изменить имя автора

Продвинутый редакторский набор инструментов собран во вкладке «Рецензирование» на панели быстрого доступа. О каждом из них мы и расскажем по порядку.

Правописание

В этой группе содержится три важных инструмента:

• Правописание;
• Тезаурус;
• Статистика.

Правописание — отличная возможность проверить документ на наличие грамматических и орфографических ошибок. Более детально о работе с данным разделом написано в нашей статье.

Урок: Проверка правописания в Word

Тезаурус — инструмент для поиска синонимов к слову. Просто выберите слово в документе, кликнув по нему, а затем нажмите на эту кнопку на панели быстрого доступа. Справа отобразится окно «Тезаурус», в котором и будет показан полный список синонимов к выбранному вами слову.

Статистика — инструмент, с помощью которого можно подсчитать количество предложений, слов и символов во всем документе или его отдельной части. Отдельно можно узнать информацию о символах с пробелами и без пробелов.

Урок: Как в Ворде посчитать количество символов

Язык

В этой группе всего два инструмента: «Перевод» и «Язык», название каждого из них говорит само за себя.

Перевод — позволяет перевести весь документ или отдельную его часть. Текст отправляется в облачную службу компании Майкрософт, а затем открывается в уже переведенном виде в отдельном документе.

Язык — языковые настройки программы, от которых, к слову, зависит и проверка правописания. То есть, прежде, чем проверить правописание в документе, необходимо убедиться в наличии соответствующего языкового пакета, а также в том, что именно он включен в данный момент.

Так, если у вас будет включен русский язык проверки, а текст будет на английском, программа подчеркнет его весь, как текст с ошибками.

Урок: Как в Word включить проверку правописания

Примечания

Эта группа содержит в себе все те инструменты, которые можно и нужно использовать в редакторской или совместной работе над документами. Это возможность указать автору на допущенные неточности, внести замечания, оставить пожелания, подсказки и т.д., оставив при этом неизменным изначальный текст. Примечания — это своего рода пометки на полях.

Урок: Как в Ворде создать примечания

В этой группе можно создать примечание, перемещаться между уже имеющимися примечаниями, а также показать их или скрыть.

Запись исправлений

Используя инструменты этой группы, можно включить режим правки в документе. В данном режиме можно исправлять ошибки, изменять содержимое текста, редактировать его как угодно, при этом, оригинал останется неизменным. То есть, после внесения необходимых правок будет существовать две версии документа — изначальная и измененная редактором или другим пользователем.

Урок: Как в Word включить режим правки

Автор документа может просмотреть исправления, а затем принять их или отклонить, а вот удалить их не получится. Инструменты для работы с исправлениями находятся в соседней группе «Изменения».

Урок: Как в Ворде убрать исправления

Сравнение

Инструменты этой группы позволяют сравнить два схожих по содержанию документа и показать так называемую разницу между ними в третьем документе. Предварительно необходимо указать исходный и изменяемый документ.

Урок: Как в Word сравнить два документа

Кроме того, в группе «Сравнение» можно объединить исправления, внесенные двумя разными авторами.

Защитить

Если вы хотите запретить редактирование документа, с которым работаете, выберите в группе «Защитить» пункт «Ограничить редактирование» и укажите необходимые параметры ограничения в открывшемся окне.

Кроме того, вы можете защитить файл паролем, после чего открыть его сможет только тот пользователь, у которого есть пароль, установленный вами.

На этом все, мы рассмотрели все инструменты рецензирования, содержащиеся в Microsoft Word. Надеемся, эта статья будет полезной для вас и заметно упростит работу с документами и их редактирование.

Microsoft Office Word offers a Review Feature, which allows one to Track Changes in a document. In this guide, we are sharing how you can use the Review Feature or Track Changes feature in Microsoft Word.

I have broken down the Review Feature feature into multiple sections and explained how each of them is useful:

1. Enable Track Changes
2. Reviewing and Commenting
3. View Changes
4. Accepting and Rejecting Changes
5. Finalizing the document
6. Merging Comments and Changes into One Document
7. Compare two documents without Tracking

Merging and comparing documents are optional features, and you need to use it in different scenarios.

1] Enable Track Changes

Before you send a document that will go through a review, make sure to enable the Track Changes feature. Once it is turned on, changes made by any of the reviewers will be recorded with their name. Those changes can be approved or rejected by another person. The feature also offers a way to lock Track Changes so that nobody can disable it. Let’s learn both of them.

• Make sure the document is ready for review.
• Open the document, and then go to Review section > click on Track Changes, and then click on Track Changes menu again.
• Once enabled, you should notice that the button has a grey background.
• Next, click on Lock Tracking, and enter a password, confirm and click ok.
• After this, Track Changes will be disabled for you or anybody else unless disabled by using the same password again.

Note: If you lose or forget your password, Microsoft won’t be able to recover it for you. Make sure to note it somewhere regarding the document.

2]  Reviewing and Commenting

After this, whatever changes are made to the document will be recorded no matter where the document is shared and edited. Here is how the changes will be recorded:

• Deletions are marked with a strikethrough
• Additions are shown with an underline
• Every author gets its color for the changes
• Select a paragraph or set of words, and click on the comment button to add your comments

A red horizontal line will show up next to the line or paragraph, making it easier to identify. Click on it, and all changes and comments will be visible. Adding to this, you can further customize colors by clicking on the arrow on the right-bottom corner of the Tracking section.

Note: Even if you turn off tracking, the colored underlines and strikethrough will be visible in the document.

3] View Changes

Assuming a document has come back to you after review, and you need to find all the changes and comments. Go to Review > Tracking > Display for Review.

• Go to Review > tracking > change from Simple Markup to All Markup
• If you choose No Markup, then the document will display as the final version only
• If you select Original, you can view the original document without any changes

4] Accepting and Rejecting Changes

If you are ok with a difference, then click on Accept and move next, but if you do not like it, click on Reject and jump to next. It will undo the change to the previous revision. You should see that the difference is marked with an underline. You also have options to

• Accept All Changes in Document
• Reject All Changes in Document.

You also have the comments section, which can help you navigate through all the comments. You can reply to comments, mark it as resolved when you have made a change or delete it.

5] Finalizing the document

When you know everything is complete, follow these steps to remove any visible markups and comments.

• Delete all the comments by clicking on Comments > Delete > Delete all comments
• Click on Accept All changes and stop tracking
• You might be asked to enter the password if the tracking was locked.

Done this, the Review feature in Office Word document is complete. However, there are two more features that we have added to the guide. They can be handy in a different scenario.

6] Merge comments & changes from different documents into one Document

If you have given a document to be reviewed by multiple users, then you can combine them into one final document for review.

1. Open a blank Microsoft document, and go to Review > Compare > Combine
2. Select two documents, original on the left side, and edited on the right.
3. Click ok and repeat for all documents until it is over.

Change made by the authors will be visible in different colors. If you want to filter by author, you can click on Show Markup > Specific people and remove authors you don’t need.

When doing so, make sure to use the Protect feature to lock authors and setup editing restrictions. It is useful when a document is available on a shared location.

7] Compare two documents without Tracking

Lastly, if there was no tracking enabled, and changes were made, you can use the Compare tool to find the differences.

1. Open a blank document, and then go to Review > click on the Compare button, and then click on the Compare again.
2. It will show a similar dialogue box where you can select the original document, revised document, author name, and more.
3. You can also choose to compare comments, headers, footers, tables, and more.

That concludes our guide on how you can use the review features to track, comment, compare in Microsoft Word. It’s a powerful tool for companies where the documents are reviewed at different levels.

I hope the guide was easy to understand and follow.

How comments in Word work

The DocTools CommentManager add-in makes it faster and easier to manage comments in Word. In addition, the add-in lets you review comments in Word from one place, rank comments by importance, extract all comments to either Word or Excel, create inline comments for instructions and help, etc. DocTools CommentManager add-in is completely compatible with Word’s own comment features.

Always make sure to save a backup copy of your document before you change the author names. 

Sub WordComments_ChangeAuthorNames_AllComments()
    Dim oComment As Comment
    
    'Iterate through comments
    'Replace author name and initials with "Neutral Name" and "NN"
    '=========================
    'NOTE: Replace the names below with relevant values
    '=========================

    For Each oComment In ActiveDocument.Comments
        With oComment
            .Author = "Neutral Name"
            .Initial = "NN"
        End With
    Next oComment
    
    'Show message
    MsgBox "Finished changing author name and initials in " & _
        ActiveDocument.Comments.Count & " comments.", _
        vbOKOnly, "Change Author Names in All Comments"
End Sub

The DocTools CommentManager add-in lets you easily change author names and initials in all comments or in only comment by a specific author. For example, you can quickly change all author names to the company name if you are going to share a document with external people.

The DocTools CommentManager add-in lets you opens the Advanced Track Changes Options more easily. In general, you can do everything in relation to comments faster and easier with DocTools CommentManager than you can using Word’s own comment tools. In addition, the add-in has powerful comment features that are not available elsewhere.

This article has explained how add comments in Word, how to remove comments in Word, print without comments, change font size of comments and a lot more. I hope this article helps you in your future work with comments in Word.

Microsoft Word allows the users to review the documents and provide their review comments inside the document. You can also enable tracking the changes in the document. So it will be useful later at the time of reviewing or finalizing the document.

Below are the steps to track changes in the Word document, Create/Delete the comments and Accept/Reject the changes made in the document.

This article applies to:

• Microsoft Word 2010

Step (1). Open your Word document into the Microsoft Word application.

Step (2). Click on the Review tab on Ribbon control. It will display review-related icons on Ribbon control.

Step (3). Check whether the Track Changes feature is already enabled or not. If it is not enabled, click on the Track Changes icon to enable Track Changes. Remember that before reviewing the document you must enable track changes. So this enables you to track all the changes you make to the document including insertions, deletions, and even formatting changes. This will be useful at the time of finalizing the changes in the document to accept or reject the changes you make to the document.

Step (4). Review the document and make any corrections to the document. The changes will be tracked and Word will create tracking entries in the document. So these tracking entries are useful to accept or reject while re-reviewing or finalizing the document.

Step (5). Insert the review comments by selecting the text or paragraph for which you want to provide your review comments and click on the New Comment icon. It will insert a comment and allow you to provide the text for your comment.

Step (6). Select the comment and update the text you want to provide into it or you can also delete the comment by clicking on the Delete comment icon. 

• You can also delete multiple comments at a time. Click on the arrow mark below the Delete icon. It will display a pull-down menu. Select Delete All Comments Shown to delete all displayed comments or click on Delete All Comments in Document to delete all the comments in the document.

Step (7). Usually, documents are on multiple pages and while reviewing the documents it is a bit difficult to navigate between the items which you want to review. You may not be required to review all the documents but may be required to review portions of the document or may be required to review particular reviewers’ changes in the document.

Step (8). Click on the Show Markup button which is under the Tracking group. It will display a pull-down menu. From Show Markup pull-down menu: 

• Select the items you want to review. Once you selected, those markups only showed in the document. For eg: You need to review only the comments made by reviewers, just select Comments and un-select the rest of the items. So in the document, it displays only the markups related to the comments.
• Select Reviewers menu item. It will display a sub-menu with a list of reviewers. Select the reviewers whose changes you want to track and un-select the rest of the reviewers. So in the document, it will show the markups related to the selected reviewers only.

Step (9). While reviewing the document, you may need to Accept or Reject the changes made in the document.

• Click on Accept button which is under the Changes group to accept the selected change.
• You can also accept multiple changes at a time:
  • Click on the arrow symbol under Accept button. It will display a pull-down menu.
  • From the pull-down menu, click on Accept All Changes in Document to accept all the changes in the document or click on Accept All Changes Shown to accept only the changes currently shown in the document.
• By clicking on the Reject button you can reject the selected change.
• You can also reject multiple changes at a time:
  • Click on the arrow symbol under the Reject button. It will display a pull-down menu.
  • From the pull-down menu, click on Reject All Changes in Document to reject all the changes in the document or click on Reject All Changes Shown to reject only the changes currently shown in the document.
• Navigate between the changes by clicking on the Previous or Next buttons.

Step (10). You can also see the summary of review changes by clicking on Reviewing Pane button which is under the Tracking group in Review ribbon control. This window is useful while reviewing the changes because it will display all the changes in one place in the respective section.

• Once you click on Reviewing Pane button it displays a Reviewing Pane either horizontal or vertical depending on your selection in Reviewing Pane pull-down menu. This menu will display when you click on the arrow button next to Reviewing Pane button from the Tracking group.
• Even you can Accept/Reject the changes from Reviewing Pane. Select the review item and right-click on it. It will display a pop-up menu. You can select Accept Deletion or Reject Deletion to accept or reject the selected change.
• On top of the Reviewing Pane, it displays a summary of revisions, types of changes along the count.

Once you are going to finalize the review of the document, you must review all the changes and you should not leave any of the changes left it either accepted or rejected before going to release the document.