Adding, editing, and deleting comments
You can add comments to document text, footnotes, endnotes, and outlines. Comments exist outside the main document body and can contain text and formatting, such as font style, justification, margins, tabs, and color. For more information about formatting text, see “Formatting text.” In addition, you can edit and delete comments.
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Click in the document where you want the comment to appear.
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Click Insert
 Comment Create. |
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Type the comment text.
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Click File
Close to return to the main document. |
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When you return to the main document, a comment icon is displayed in the left margin next to line where the comment is inserted. In Draft view, comments appear as shaded text within the document.
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When publishing to HTML, you can include the comments that you inserted in a document. For more information about publishing comments to HTML, see “To publish to HTML.”
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You can return from the comment window to the main text document by pressing Ctrl + F4.
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Click in the line where the comment is inserted.
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Click Insert
Comment Edit. |
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If you prefer, you can right-click the comment icon and click Edit.
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Edit the comment.
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Click one of the following to edit other comments in the document:
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Next
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Click File
Close to return to the main document. |
To delete a comment | |
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Right-click a comment or comment icon, and click
Delete. |