Inserting Comments in Documents

Shared by: Candace Warner, Faculty Technology Mentor

 

Many of us are provided with documents that we need to review and send back to another person (or committee) with our changes. Here’s a fast way to do that:

 

Opening the Reviewing Pane:

The document will open up in Microsoft Word. In order to add your comments to the document without changing the document, you want to see the Reviewing Pane icon—here’s what it looks like:  .

 

If you do not see the Reviewing icon  , right click anywhere in the toolbar area—a list of options will open up—you want Reviewing…or you could try:

  • Tools
  • Customize
  • Under the Toolbars menu, scroll down and check Reviewing

     

This is what the Reviewing Pane looks like:

 

 

After the Reviewing Pane is open, you can add comments without changing the original document.

 

Inserting a Comment:

1.                   Select the text or item you want to comment on, or click at the end of the text.

2.                   In the Reviewing Pane, choose the icon that looks like a yellow folder (see icon above to the right of number 4)

3.                   Type the comment text in the comment balloon. See below what the comments would look like:

 

After you have inserted your comments, just save the document (you might want to consider saving the document as a revised version from the original). You can also go back and delete comments from the document.

 

*For more information on this and a short “how-to” session, go to:  http://office.microsoft.com/training/Training.aspx?AssetID=RC011600131033&CTT=6&Origin=RC011600131033

 

Have fun editing!

 

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Candace Warner

Sociology Lead Faculty

Columbia State Community College

Phone: 931.540.2775

Email: warner@columbiastate.edu

Faculty Website: http://cwarner2.columbiastate.edu

Dept. Website: http://www.columbiastate.edu/sociology