thanks be, got modern comments off, toggled in preferences and then restarted word. Formatting in Modern Comments: Beyond Google Docs. Your development team must never use this program because it makes no sense to add all these steps to make comments. Well, this was the company that gave us Clippy after all. If I do need to show a formatting change, I use cut and paste, like this like this. To delete a comment, right-click it and select Delete Comment. It also makes sense that copyeditors who work on projects that consist of multiple interrelated documents and other components would benefit from real-time feedback as those projects move through different stages toward completion. It doesn't make sense to only be allowed to edit one comment at a time, particularly if the idea is to not post them until you're ready to share with others. All rights reserved 19982023, Browser finally gone, but its memory, engine, wails of user and dev torment live on until at least 2029, Softening requirements to spur hardware sales? 09:26 AM. Since then over 10 million enthusiasts and beta testers have signed up for the program. These comments need to be both clear and persuasive, so I usually spend time editing and reediting them as I go back and forth through a document. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. What a clumsy and clunky thing they are. Comments in documents have long been used in collaborative efforts. Users will be able to respond to comments directly from an email notification. I've disabled updates but wonder if that in itself will cause issues. Be sure to save any open documents. But my work has a lot of editing to do in the comments made by someone else. Things move fast and i am old.. Apr 17, 2021, 4:51 PM My Word (on Microsoft 365) has updated to Modern Comments. I un-checked that box, closed Word, reopened Word and presto, back to classic commenting. Once you do that, your comment will look like this (but with a blinking cursor line at the end of the comment text): Note the message in gray text: Another comment is in progress. In this case, its my own comment thats in progress (or, specifically, an edit to my own comment). Sometimes in the course of writing one comment, I want to comment on something else first and then come back to the previous comment. If I open a comment using a keyboard shortcut (on a Windows computer) and start typing, the first one or two letters often gets inserted into the main text They don't use the same autocorrect tools as the main text. Word for Mac. There seems to be a light at the end of this tunnel: please read update onMicrosoft 365 Roadmap | Microsoft 365"Message ID: MC277410Published date: 8/11/2021Category: Plan for changeTags: Admin impact, Feature update, User impact, [Key points]This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 76186 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?filters=&searchterms=76186)Timing:Current Channel Preview, February 2021Current Channel, August 2021 (previously, June 2021)Roll-out: User-levelAction: review and assess, Note: Modern comments will temporarily include support for an opt-out toggle in Words Options dialog. We typically release features over some time to ensure that things are working smoothly. Over the last year and a half (beginning in April 2021), Microsoft has been rolling out its "modern comments" to Word 365 users on both Windows and Mac platforms. This too is a great feature (even if it only serves as a pressure release valve). 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. To get the old comment features back: Select File > Options > General > turn OFFthe Enable modern commentscheck box. If Microsoft gets feedback from sufficiently many users, they mayoffer an option to go back to the older comments design. Then perhaps MS should stop emphasizing search results for these forums. It is best known as Microsofts take on Slack, the popular cloud-based proprietary instant messaging platform. Microsoft has a new "modern commenting experience" and wanted to extend it over the various editions of Word. Maybe we need to offer MS a bitcoin as ransom to get them to give us an option to use our old comment system. Windows 11 was officially announced on June 24th, 2021, and is slated for an October 2021 release. Once I post a comment, it's still selected. Ctrl+Z (or Cmd-Z) and its gone. @chiara369In addition to the many, many issues others have complained about, this new function no longer allows images and photos to be added, and has wiped out every single image saved in two vast memoirs I'm editing for clients, wiping out years of work. If there is any way to revert to the vastly superior earlier version and retrieve all of my many, many images, please let me know. 01:45 AM. Select the Options button in the Styles task pane. Sep 26 2021 Hello@chiara369 and all others who don't like modern comments. [I take that term from the incredible comment from MS some years back after a disastrous OS release that you could always 'upgrade back to the previous OS'!! Create a blank document. Your comments will be seen by others only after youve finished editing them and have clicked the Post button. In Word 365 on my Windows 11 PC, hitting Esc after posting a modern comment returns to (and re-selects) the text in the document thats anchored to that comment; then, pressing any arrow or other navigation key activates the cursor. You cant do that using modern comments. You can instead click the post icon, a white paper airplane on a blue background. Awful. Ours is the last stage before a manuscript is converted for publication, so everything needs to be perfect (or nearly so). But the requirement to post means that you cant use Find and Replace in comments: Find works, but Replace does not. Type your comment, and then click Post. If I open a comment using a keyboard shortcut (on a Windows computer) and start typing, the first one or two letters often gets inserted into the main text, They don't use the same autocorrect tools as the main text. It began innocently enough last month. Word + Excel + PowerPoint: Bringing It All Together, Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Words Modern Comments: A Copyeditors Perspective, City, State: A Comma with Two Competing Roles, To add the comment shown above, I selected the phrase its how we show our work, pressed Ctrl+Alt+M (Im working in Windows; on a Mac its Cmd-Option-A), and typed This is a classic Word comment.. Click or tap at the beginning of the document. 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. Modern comments is amateur coding. Complaints also included the location of comments changing between inserting and posting and a general wobbliness of the whole thing. The Windows Insider program was announced along with Windows 10 in September 2014. Thanks for your comment! Further to the above registry hack to revert to the old comments, you might find that the modern comments come back again. Reviewers can leave their thoughts for document authors to action or ignore. The main issue is that autotext is no longer supported in a 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. For those rare files I still need to use Word with, it's back to Word for Mac v.15.50. This update sounds like it should be a good one. Word alerts us to this step by including a tip in every new comment: Press Ctrl+Enter to post (Cmd-Enter works on a Mac). Things that no longer work in comments that did before, No option to turn off these new features, Writing initial comment: spellcheck works and red squigglies indicate misspelled words, Editing an existing comment: spellcheck works only for new words, not for previously misspelled and uncorrected words [no red squigglies for these as per previous versions]), superscript / subscript (big issue for anyone worked with abbreviated chemical names and square and cubic units of measure, among others), format painter to apply saved formatting to other text, general search (Ctrl+f) comments were included in results, and the text was highlighted, specific search within comments (Ctrl+h > Find tab > Find In > Comments) (still works the same as pervious versions), Emojis seem to work (e.g. ", Another critic wailed: "I am truly at a loss for words as to why this seemed like a good idea to your development team.". The fact that the option is intact, even in Word for Mac, is good news. In the meantime the recommendation is to use the feedback box. We highlight features that you may not have because theyre slowly releasing to larger numbers of Insiders. I'm an editor and the only one on the doc when I edit, and I could really do without the extra work :\. (LogOut/ Modern comments are also a feature in newer versions of Excel and PowerPoint. you have got to be kidding me. Learn moreabout what other information you should include in your feedback to ensureits actionable and reaches the right people. Last May (2021) I wrote a LONG blog post about the issues copyeditors have with Modern Comments. 2. :-) ), 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. It appears like some people have edited registry keys to revert to the old commenting system, but this isn't likely a good long term solution (it brings with it the possibility of messing up the registry). Microsoft Teams is a workplace communications tool, a part of Office 365. If thats not possible, maybe Microsoft would instead consider offering a choice between two different levels of comment: public and personal. Once I post a comment, it's still selected. That seems to have done the trick. 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. But if, like me, you do most of your work on longer documents that arent sharedand especially if youre not as convinced as I am that the benefits of modern comments outweigh their limitations in Wordgive it more time. There are more steps to use them than before. the modern comments are not fun, too much time and confusion. That will give you this (to the right of the document): I cant stress enough how great this list view is, especially in any document longer than a few pages. Obviously, this isn't the same as the old comments design, and therefore I recommend that you post feedback for Microsoft (see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/how-do-i-give-feedback-on-microsoft-office-2b102d44-b43f-). I use this feature to give positive feedback as well. Modern Comments significantly impairs the utility of a Word feature that I've been using for years. Since then, Ive allowed my laptop to upgrade to the latest Word 365 (version 2014, build 13929.20296), and have extensively tested Modern Comments to see what the issues are and how they may affect writers and especially editors, who often work on very long and complex documents written for fields such as the corporate and business world, government, legal and regulatory bodies, medical entities, academia and education, and more, as well as fiction books. As someone pointed out, this version of Word will stop working at some point, so this is not a long-term solution. I can still use it in version 16.67. 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?!?! Figure 21. PhraseExpress [PE], TextExpander) instead of AutoCorrect (AC) for your editing comments (NOTE: Beware: If you use the same code in AC and in PE, the code from PE will work in the comments, but in the main document, youll get a double-up of the expanded text. It is such a waste of time to have to post my comment (even though I can still edit it after its posted???) Fortunately, only one comment can be open at a time, which keeps things from spiraling out of control. This is true for Insiders as well. 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. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. thanks for sharing. Select the File tab in the ribbon. When will they do it. Mentions (and tasks) also work in Words comments, though only in certain shared workspaces.. Once the comment is posted you can drag the comment bubble anywhere within the object you commented on to indicate specifically what you're referring to. 1. Or issue terse responses. By saving it to OneDrive (Microsofts answer to iCloud and Google Drive and Dropbox and the like), I was able to share the file with myself via the Share button in the ribbon and observe simultaneous edits (and comments) on a second computer. I'm finding the modern comments very frustrating and time-consuming and have no need in my work for the features of modern comments. Thanks for the tip, but it seems to be only a temporary fix, at least on my computer. Why not allow multiple to be in draft? The main areas of concern, among others, relate to: Ive divided this post up into (no order of priority or severity is implied): This is a long post, so you might want to grab a coffee, Update June 2021: For the really short version, see this brilliant cartoon from Iva Cheung: https://ivacheung.com/2021/07/modern-comments/, How comments were indicated in previous versions of Wordobvious lines and obvious colours, How comments are indicated with Modern Commentsno lines, just speech bubble icons; pale colours, Update 6 Jan 2022: Some of the FAQs on this Microsoft page address some of the issues raised in this post, and offer some workarounds: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-modern-comments-in-word-edc6ae71-0a2d-49fe-8faa-986f1e48136a. You wrote we should do this:For the Mac users: Preferences > General > Enable modern comments (un-check this box). Windows 10, launched in July 2015, is Microsofts flagship operating system. If I forget to post and try to type a new comment, it pulls me back to my previous comment and starts typing, making me lose my spot where I wanted the next comment. Jul 19 2021 In Word for Windows, click File > Options > General and clear the check mark next to "Enable modern comments." Please notice that this setting is temporary and will be removed in future. Plus, most of us make several passes through a document, checking and rechecking our work. Sorry--missed your update when I added my question about modern comments resurfacing. That makes just about any workaround possible. Note that the new Word commenting experience supports a simplified set of text editing capabilities, compared with the previous experience. Learn how your comment data is processed. Ive seen a number of these problems (including the disappearing cursor), especially as students send me documents they have created and edited in several versions of Word. For example, youre able to type Bold, Italic, Underline and Strikethrough text, but you will not be able to change font type or color inside comments. no option to revert to classic comments, with their previous functionality, including an option to turn off collaboration features. (LogOut/ I also can't just click INTO it to edit, I have to click on more buttons. , The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT, Copyright. It's incredibly helpful to be able to insert these quickly and will increase my marking time substantially if I can't use them. 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). Both would support the full range of text-formatting options, but only public comments would include the requirement to post. With the Office Insider newsletter, you can get the latest information about Insider features in your inbox once a month. Customize Settings. Dec 04 2022 You can resize and move the Comments pane (list view); macro to resize the Comments pane: Another workaround: Avoid using Modern Comments entirely, and instead use EndNotes and macros that work in EndNotes. Heres where to start! I have no need of a chat mode in software that I use for work. Looking for a way to get them back and unsuccessful so far. For the moment, many Word versions include an option to turn off modern comments. I've signed both, and will check yours out, too! Microsoft has announced that it is bringing the new modern commenting experience in Microsoft Word to more platforms. Oct 26 2022 And you can mention someone in a Google Docs comment using the @ symbol, which triggers an email to that person and lets you assign the comment as a task. Click OK. ", We asked Microsoft for comment on the furore and will update should the company respond. Open an Office app. NO idea how it got back, but good to have. - edited If you use Word, and unless you have your updates turned off, theres a good chance you have them by now, or will soon.*. On Windows, go to your User folder "AppData" "Roaming" "Microsoft" "Templates". My Word (on Microsoft 365) has updated to Modern Comments. Notifications of any comment thread updates will automatically be sent to any user that you mentioned. thanks for people writing this thread, helped save so much time!!!! Working with Tables. Why is everything being made to look like social media! I cannot locate that either. Sometimes, comments are just comments to help the author improve their writing," grumbled another victim of this vision. I am a Mac user. OnMSFT.com brings you all the latest news on Windows 10 and beyond. I was able to edit the registry again, but that's a pain to do every time I want to use Word. It seems to work!! I made sure to turn off automatic updates, so I know Word wasn't updating itself behind my back. Let us know in the comments down below. Thanks very much for this. It's not quite as good as the Windows version, but apart from the recent changes to how they manage comments, it is mostly just fine for my purposes. 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. Sorry, JavaScript must be enabled to use this app. Info tab 3. Looking for some help with Windows 10, or just some good tips? how to manage them. Microsoft has also emphasized the need for a uniform design of comments across Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Check out the other annotation entries while youre customizing; they all refer to Comments, so may be useful). The "Preferences" tab should be just below "About Microsoft Word." 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. 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. 09:05 AM Also, my testing only dealt with comments about functionality made on this webpage up to 10 May 2021.). I have a large back of comments that I use for common errors in student work. At this time the modern comments cannot be disabled and Microsoft is aware of the complaints. These issues with Comments have been going on for years. My typing has evolved to use those features. 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). I wasn't aware that the "Enable modern comments" option had been removed from Word for Mac. Updates to improve accessibility features will be rolling out soon. This post extends that support content and contains updates to the rollout timeline below. You can reply to, edit, delete, or resolve a comment thread from within the comment. This setting is temporaryand will be removed in the future. To display the Comments pane, either choose Show Comments > List (under the Review tab) or simply click the Comments icon in the upper right corner. The list of problems with modern comments continues to grow. 09:25 AM It doesn't make sense to only be allowed to edit one comment at a time, particularly if the idea is to not post them until you're ready to share with others. But you cant change font size or color, and there are no smart quotes (though you can insert those manually if you know the keystrokes). Once I post a comment, it's still selected. 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). Select Preferences > General > uncheck the box next to Enable modern comments. Thank you for your patience.We're rolling out a new comments experience in Word with imp Joo Ferreira Search for: 12 Notifications Reply to a comment thread with an @mention: Some known issues to be aware of as you use the comments experience: The Comments pane is available in Word for Windows to Insiders running Beta Channel Version 2006 (Build 13006.20002) or later. For example, say I notice that each time I refer to an author named Smyth, Ive typed Smith by mistake. Sharing best practices for building any app with .NET. Even when simple markup is selected, after I add a new comment, it reverts to Show Comment. Well, sorry, it's the law. 09:06 AM. In Word neither "text prediction" nor "modern comments" are available. Jul 19 2021 Some have taken to rolling back their versions of Word and others have ventured into the Registry to disable the hated function. (When Words classic comments have been set to display in the margins, theres no option not to show formatting there also.) Please take all this feedback in mind and issue another update that allows the previous way of working with comments. I just really need my lines back. Click on Save. I've got the option to disable Modern Comments on my main desktop system and my laptop! I am grading a set of advanced undergraduate papers and I estimate that Modern Comments has about doubled the time it takes to mark them up and more than doubled the frustration level. Next press "Ctrl+ Shift+ End". Impossible to bold, impossible to add numbering, extra clicks. It was nice. Looking for Teams How To posts? Home tab in the ribbon 2. Here, you'll need to select "Version History." Alternatively, you can click the "File" button from the top menu bar. Though this is rare, we also reserve the option to pull a feature entirely out of the product, even if you, as Insiders, have had the opportunity to try them. My typing has evolved to use those features. 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. Not everyone wants or needs to make changes in real time. And with its focus on comments alone, Words Comments pane is more user friendly than the Revisions pane. Let's get this monster de-fanged! Remember to send Feedback to Microsoft about this. 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). Im here to share modern commenting in Word on Windows Desktop. Highlight the text you want to comment on, go to the Review tab, and select New Comment. Open Word and click on the Word in the menu on the top of the screen. Check these posts out!! This is one of the reasons Im bull-headedly sticking with Word 2010. Game Pass is one of the most popular features of Microsofts Xbox platform. Note that Microsoft does not actively monitor the Tech Community forum for product feedback, as far as I know. If you are using Outlook 2016, 2019, or 365, copy the following line, then right click in the command prompt window to paste it. If you don't find the missing file in these locations, open Word, and select File > Info > Manage Document > Recover Unsaved Documents. 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. 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. And has COMMENTS appearing as they should. There are more steps to use them than before. Liked them and added a tweet linking to a long ago started petition. Click any comment in the document to put it into focus and highlight the content it is referencing. If you later need to review all of the resolved comments, click the. What might happen, as a result of user feedback, is that minor tweaks may be introduced, that is, the comment feature may be a little more customizable than it is today. How to Change the Proofing Language for Comments in Word 1. Thanks!! https://twitter.com/aileverte/status/1442136158964748296. Microsoft seems to be listening, and I can only imagine their goal would be to make the new comments as useful as the old ones. Create a comment thread: Select the text you want to comment on in your document and press Ctrl+Alt+M. - edited Comments. These cookies collect information in aggregate form to help us understand how our websites are being used. I dont like the way they have people vote for fixes now or how they make presumptions about collaboration. No one. . 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. Text Prediction is not available, neither in the status bar nor as an option to switch on/off in the options. That cartoon is hilarious. Of course, its gone now, probably because it * was * useful. Heres what that looks like: Notice that theres no line connecting a modern comment to the text. Options button in the Styles task pane 4. Microsoft Teams first launched in March of 2017 and has picked up many new features since then. You're forced to finish one first, to the standard you're happy for others to see, defeating the purpose of not having to post until it's finished. My Word (on Microsoft 365) has updated to Modern Comments. Hi, Im Kallie Bracken, a Program Manager on the Word team. 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