Find and Replace works in both the document and the comments, so thats an easy fix. It's incredibly helpful to be able to insert these quickly and will increase my marking time substantially if I can't use them. :-) ), 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. Modern comments are a lot like the comments in Google Docs. Oh no, you're thinking, yet another cookie pop-up. #frustrated This thread is locked. My Word (on Microsoft 365) has updated to Modern Comments. Of course, its gone now, probably because it * was * useful. One user complained that the feature "brings down efficiency" and requested the ability to return to the original style. 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). Maybe we need to offer MS a bitcoin as ransom to get them to give us an option to use our old comment system. It used to be in the Preferences dialog box. That makes just about any workaround possible. What a clumsy and clunky thing they are. Looking for Teams How To posts? Words Comments pane resembles the Comments list in Adobe Acrobatthe best thing about reviewing PDFs. Yep! I cannot locate that either. Click the document to return. Let's get this monster de-fanged! You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. 09:25 AM other information you should include in your feedback. Let us know in the comments down below. Really! I drafted this post in Word 365 on a desktop PC running Windows 11. Its nonsense-they let the kids loose, and they are not writers. Select the Home tab in the ribbon. OMG more forced downloads and apps MEH. Most people do not collaborate. Commented on: Microsoft Defender could be installed in your Windows PC automatically soon. Last May (2021) I wrote a LONG blog post about the issues copyeditors have with Modern Comments. 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. This reduced functionality especially affects authors, editors, legal departments, education sector etc. Figure 1. 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). 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! If only MS would buy one of the several companies that has an iOS solution ready Man i remember when the first 1Gb Western Digital Hard drive was released . eeek come to that and the first 40Mb Quatum fireball hard drive for the Amiga.. If you're cool with that, hit Accept all Cookies. 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. Help welcome! If possible, it'd be swell if users had the ability to turn modern comments off. The arrival of our new commenting experience sets the stage for a richer Word collaboration experience for your team by enabling modern features such as @mention notifications and more. To turn off modern comments on Windows and MacOS, go to. Thanks, Russell. Go to General > Enable Modern Comments and uncheck the box from there. So much functionality has been lost, while other functions that used to take no time at all now require several clicks to access. 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. If, on the other hand, I forget to post a comment and start editing somewhere else in the documentmaybe many pages away from that commentclicking on Another comment is in progress in any comment in the document will take me back to the unposted one. When will they do it. And you cant use an equation editor to insert equations. 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. Things move fast and i am old.. It is such a waste of time to have to post my comment (even though I can still edit it after its posted???) and there's no option to revert to 'classic comments'. Jul 19 2021 @Bgwilson. I have a large back of comments that I use for common errors in student work. This also completes our goal of aligning the commenting experience across Word platforms and other Office apps, especially in Word, Excel & PowerPoint. Were excited to hear from you! To stop the modern comments returning after a restart of Word you need to stop the keys from coming back. The old comment feature worked perfectly well, there was no need to change it and I hope these modifications will be removed in a future update. Restart Word application. I've disabled updates but wonder if that in itself will cause issues. Entries (RSS) Select the Info tab in the Backstage view. Create a comment thread: Select the text you want to comment on in your document and press Ctrl+Alt+M. (If you use a different location, version . Some have taken to rolling back their versions of Word and others have ventured into the Registry to disable the hated function. My computer screen isn't large enough to cope with the extra width. My computer screen isn't large enough to cope with the extra width. Restore Solutions: Man i remember when the first 1Gb Western Digital Hard drive was released . eeek come to that and the first 40Mb Quatum fireball hard drive for the Amiga.. Thats no doubt part of the plan. Just encountered modern comments "feature" and haaaaaaaaaate it! I am still using Word 2019 and it serves me well. Nov 21 2022 This new hybrid could be called postmodern comments. Thankgoodness for your post. These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. I un-checked that box, closed Word, reopened Word and presto, back to classic commenting. If I type .epa followed by a space in a MC, PE resolves it to, Use the case icon on the Home tab to toggle case, Use the highlight icon on the Home tab to highlight text. Thats easy to do. Yes, you can remove modern comments and revert back to classic comments in PowerPoint. Click on Save. Who was asking for that? Word for Mac. 3. Impossible to bold, impossible to add numbering, extra clicks. You might need your IT department to help. Figure 21. Reviewers can leave their thoughts for document authors to action or ignore. Sometimes in the course of writing one comment, I want to comment on something else first and then come back to the previous comment. 12:44 PM Have you found a keyboard shortcut to get back into the main document after youve Cmd-Entered a modern comment? 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. Options button in the Styles task pane 4. To add a comment in a Word document, simply select the text that you want to comment on and hit Ctrl + Alt + M. The comments pane will instantly appear on the right side of the screen, and it will let you type it in. I'm working on a personal laptop--no IT department to deal with. It's not intact, at least not for all users. Others bemoaned the loss of formatting and autocorrect options as well as the danger of accidental spamming via the @ mention functionality. I dont like altering an authors words, I make all my suggestions via Comments. You cant do that using modern comments. To go back and edit that comment (or any other comment in the document), I can simply click into it and start typing. Our documents may live in the cloud (on Dropbox or some other file-hosting service), and we do send them back to the author or publisher when were done with them (usually via email), but theyre not sharednot in the real-time, collaborative sense of that word. The modern commenting experience is now available through a dedicated Comments pane for Windows Insiders running the Beta Channel Version 2006 (Build 13006.20002) or later. In those appswhere the old comments tended to get lost in the busy graphical interfacethe Comments pane is a giant step forward. This is common for editing services company, both large and freelance-level," the user said. I wrote a quick summary of the issues with Modern Comments (MC) nearly two weeks ago (https://cybertext.wordpress.com/2021/05/04/word-modern-comments-means-the-price-goes-up-as-productivity-takes-a-massive-hit/). 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. When youve inserted a comment box, instead of typing, you can click. 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). 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). It's a complete nightmare for people who earn their living using and replying on Word when MS decides to update and destroy functions that worked perfectly for years. Method 1 Windows 1 Close Microsoft Word. I also can't just click INTO it to edit, I have to click on more buttons. Updates to improve accessibility features will be rolling out soon. If people say no to these cookies, we do not know how many people have visited and we cannot monitor performance. Why not allow multiple to be in draft? 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. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests. Use the Feedback facility available within Word. I wasn't aware that the "Enable modern comments" option had been removed from Word for Mac. 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. In Docs, the text in comments cant be formatted in the usual way. There are more steps to use them than before. 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). The new design. @Louise_HawesVCFAIm in too. Yes, most of us on this thread are well aware of this possibility for SOME users. However, I can't click out of it to finish, I have to click or ctrl+Enter to post. Instead, commented-on text is shaded in gray until a specific comment is either in progress or hovered over or selected; then the shading turns purple (as in the screenshot above). Select the File tab in the ribbon. 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. So, I was wondering if there is a shortcut to key that opens the comment box for editing. 11:08 AM. 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. - edited But Words new comments are less easy to get excited about if, like me and most of the other copyeditors I know, you do your main work in isolation. Once I post a comment, it's still selected. Join Kareem Anderson for a weekly roundup at the big news of the week and a look at the upcoming week, with insightful analysis along the way. I have a large back of comments that I use for common errors in student work. If you still haven't found the file, try manually searching for AutoRecover files. Figure 2. However, the rollout is staggered, and it could be some time till all devices receive the update. It seems to work!! Trying out Spoutible as a Twitteralternative, When the job ad for an editor requiresediting, Excel: Convert hours and minutes to minutes, Word: Table or table row goes to next page, Testing ChatGPT against an editor's rewrite, A light-hearted look at how punctuation can change meaning, Word to PDF: Table of Contents not clickable, Trying out Spoutible as a Twitter alternative, Word: Change caption numbering from sequential to chapter numbering, If one or more of my tips have helped you, saved you time, or saved your skin, you can thank me by clicking the PayPal button (or, loss of functionality that has existed since comments were introduced many years ago (its broken), extra clicks and mouse movements that have to be done to insert, save, or edit a comment (its not ergonomically efficient), impingement on valuable screen real estate (its hard to use and is not efficient), lack of connection between comments and the text they relate to (its hard to use and is not efficient), resulting additional time and loss of productivity (and therefore extra cost to the client) it takes to review/edit documents and make comments for author action (its not efficient). 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. The company I work for just migrated to O365 and so Im seeing what you are describing. Track changes worked perfectly before and this was not something that needed to be "fixed". Which is annoying. Re: Can I remove Modern Comments and revert back? And has COMMENTS appearing as they should. Replace xxxx.yyyy with the build number you want to revert to. That cartoon is hilarious. 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). Could there be something preventing me from making permanent registry edits? (For example, Microsoft Word.) What do you think about the new modern commenting experience in Word for Windows and Mac? You can look up build numbers at Version numbers of update branches for Office 365 clients. Thanks for your comment! (LogOut/ To switch between the default, focused view of comments to the right of the page and the Comments pane, simply click the Comments button in the upper right corner of your Word window. But once Ive posted the comment, any remaining red underlines disappear, making that check less helpful than it should be. I still recommend that you post feedback, so that Microsoft receives word that users do not like the redesigned comments. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The main issue is that autotext is no longer supported in a comment. I am a professor and fully agree with all that's been said in this thread. My typing has evolved to use those features. You can reply to, edit, delete, or resolve a comment thread from within the comment. Learn more about how to get the most out of Windows 11 here! Liked them and added a tweet linking to a long ago started petition. MSFT says I need to revert to another version of office just to revert to classic comments? - edited Select Allow this information to be saved in your file under the Inspect Document heading. Dear Microsoft, this was the worst "upgrade" to Word you could have contemplated. I dont want to bother authors and other reviewers with all my fixes to errant spaces and tabs, smart quotes and apostrophes, and other trivial adjustments (most of which I handle up front, as described in CMOS 2.80). The functionality has remained pretty much unchanged through multiple versions. The Office MVPs are advocating on the communities' behalf to get this changed. Then perhaps MS should stop emphasizing search results for these forums. I could do as Word asks, or I could change my mind and click the X. I am so relieved to see so many others frustrated with this Modern Comments as I feel exactly the same! 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