05:18 AM. Will be very grateful if someone can help. It turns comments into a reviewing-oriented Navigation pane. This update sounds like it should be a good one. 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. Users will be able to respond to comments directly from an email notification and edit, delete or resolve a comment thread from within the comment. Go to General > Enable Modern Comments and uncheck the box from there. #ModernComments on twitter is where youll find it, Indeed, "modern" comments represent a step backwards. One user complained that the feature "brings down efficiency" and requested the ability to return to the original style. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. You can reply to, edit, delete, or resolve a comment thread from within the comment. 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. If you use Word, and unless you have your updates turned off, theres a good chance you have them by now, or will soon.*. Can you explain how to disable inheritance? 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. On Windows, go to your User folder "AppData" "Roaming" "Microsoft" "Templates". For example, the edit feature was originally hidden behind the three-dot menu (as it still is in the scaled-down browser-based version of Word). Comments in documents have long been used in collaborative efforts. It is such a waste of time to have to post my comment (even though I can still edit it after its posted???) The opposite of modern is outdated, old-fashioned, antiquated. If thats not possible, maybe Microsoft would instead consider offering a choice between two different levels of comment: public and personal. Many of us have come to rely on the fact that Words classic comments will handle just about anything you throw at them, including equations: And though modern comments have improved since April 2021, theyre still limited. 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. 3. Microsoft introduced a "simplified ribbon" in early 2021 for various Office programs, including Microsoft Outlook on Windows, Word for web, and Excel for web. I found a check box in Advanced track changes options for show lines connecting to text and it does NOTHING. Your Consent Options link on the site's footer. My typing has evolved to use those features. 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). Everything in Word else *seems* be working OK just curious. how to manage them. 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. 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). Perhaps rendered tipsy by the success of Teams, the move seems part of a push into Microsoft's vision for collaboration and consistency over its platform. The new design. For one monthly price, Microsoft offers at least one hundred games available to download and play, or play on Xbox Cloud Gaming, the companys game streaming platform Heres some more stuff. Once I post a comment, it's still selected. Then I would definitely prefer the new comments to the old. Just "save as" Word 1997-2003.doc - nice and modern, just a pre-smartphone/unsocial media solution. Every time a machine 'updates' MS Word, I have to 'UPGRADE BACK' to Word 15.5! 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. However, "Not everyone needs to chat via a Word doc. Ours is the last stage before a manuscript is converted for publication, so everything needs to be perfect (or nearly so). 09:06 AM. 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. Many of the desired editing features are not available in this mobile application. That makes just about any workaround possible. 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. In those appswhere the old comments tended to get lost in the busy graphical interfacethe Comments pane is a giant step forward. Once I post a comment, it's still selected. On the Review tab, go to Changes. Click on Save. so that I can move on. Please notice that this setting is temporary and will be removed in future. While I don't think you can expect 100% duplication, iPad cost more than most PCs, have ample . Type your comment, and then click Post. Word. We measure how many people read us, There have been a number of times I've posted a comment then tried to ctrl+F something in the document, but it won't respond to my ctrl+F. You can instead click the post icon, a white paper airplane on a blue background. :-) ), 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. So much functionality has been lost, while other functions that used to take no time at all now require several clicks to access. Just encountered modern comments "feature" and haaaaaaaaaate it! Has anyone figured out how to do that? For example, to re-create the classic comment above, I could use an equation editor from within the document (or in another document or app), save that as an image, and then copy and paste the image into a comment (though without any option to resize the image): If you open a document with modern comments enabled, and that document includes an equation added using classic comments, you can still view that equation. I don't share my documents, so being able to edit comments and post when they're finalised is not particularly useful for me, as no one else is looking at them until I send the document. 11:08 AM. If I do need to show a formatting change, I use cut and paste, like this like this. Method 1 Windows 1 Close Microsoft Word. Click on File. Best practices and the latest news on Microsoft FastTrack, The employee experience platform to help people thrive at work, Expand your Azure partner-to-partner network, Bringing IT Pros together through In-Person & Virtual events. Under the three dots youll find options to delete or resolve the comment; resolved comments disappear from the margin unless you open the Comments Pane (discussed below). thanks for people writing this thread, helped save so much time!!!! 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. The main issue is that autotext is no longer supported in a comment. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. The fact that the option is intact, even in Word for Mac, is good news. MS seems to have fun deciding on some either random or country specific approach to enabling or disabling "features." Please Microsoft!!! Well, sorry, it's the law. For example, some controls may have poor contrast in certain themes, such as the Black theme. For example, I couldnt use @mentions in the draft file that I saved in OneDrive while signed in to my personal Microsoft account. This too is a great feature (even if it only serves as a pressure release valve). Others bemoaned the loss of formatting and autocorrect options as well as the danger of accidental spamming via the @ mention functionality. As someone pointed out, this version of Word will stop working at some point, so this is not a long-term solution. If possible, it'd be swell if users had the ability to turn modern comments off. One problem is with that pesky requirement to "Post" a comment. Select Accept or Reject . Please, give us the old Word, or at least fix the awful comments. Comments are slow to open. I had the lines connecting comments to the texts recently disappear and it is extremely frustrating. Thats easy to do. Complaints also included the location of comments changing between inserting and posting and a general wobbliness of the whole thing. Re: Can I remove Modern Comments and revert back? Modern Comments (horrible name!) These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Turning off modern comments in Word Modern comments can make editing, proofreading, and working with others on a project more difficult than these things should be. My typing has evolved to use those features. 09:05 AM Working with Tables. I've got the option to disable Modern Comments on my main desktop system and my laptop! Nov 21 2022 This also completes our goal of aligning the commenting experience across Word platforms and other Office apps, especially in Word, Excel & PowerPoint. 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.. Russell Harper (@cpyeditor) is editor of TheChicago Manual of Style Online Q&A and was the principal reviser of the last two editions of The Chicago Manual of Style. I'm using Word for Mac 16.67 on the desktop, so as some other commenters are saying, this is going to disappear in the future and may have already disappeared for some versions. Why not allow multiple to be in draft? Restore Solutions: OMG more forced downloads and apps MEH. But thats about it. I am so relieved to see so many others frustrated with this Modern Comments as I feel exactly the same! Thankgoodness for your post. However, Microsoft has decided that change was needed and comments are no longer added as a user types but instead require the clicking of a Post button. Check out our How To section and get the most out of your setup! File tab 2. 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. Those comments are presumably the origin of the modern comments in Word 365, a full-featured desktop app. Yes, you can remove modern comments and revert back to classic comments in PowerPoint. Unfortunately, text in Modern comments can no longer be spellchecked. We typically release features over some time to ensure that things are working smoothly. Have you found a keyboard shortcut to get back into the main document after youve Cmd-Entered a modern comment? Modern Comments has set my grading back decades, let the collaborators congregate on Teams. 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). Best practices and the latest news on Microsoft FastTrack, The employee experience platform to help people thrive at work, Expand your Azure partner-to-partner network, Bringing IT Pros together through In-Person & Virtual events. 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. (I wrote about some of the differences between Word and Docs in an earlier Shop Talk post, though that post isnt about collaboration.). This allows you to focus on your content without missing active comments related to the part of the document youre working on. Modern comments started out more like the comments in Docs. He also contributed to the revisions of the last two editions of Kate L. Turabians A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Things move fast and i am old.. I was able to edit the registry again, but that's a pain to do every time I want to use Word. Change). 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?!?! Oh no, you're thinking, yet another cookie pop-up. However, I can't click out of it to finish, I have to click or ctrl+Enter to post. , The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT, Copyright. Restart Word application. I use this feature to give positive feedback as well. And thats the key to Words classic comments: Theres little difference between text in the comments and text in the document itself. I could do as Word asks, or I could change my mind and click the X. The old form of the comments is displayed. At least on the updates rolled out to me as of 11/10/21, there's now an option to "temporarily" revert back. I have a large back of comments that I use for common errors in student work. Thank goodness for that. Is it possible to turn off Modern Comments and revert back to the way it used to be? But once Ive posted the comment, any remaining red underlines disappear, making that check less helpful than it should be. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. If you don't find the missing file in these locations, open Word, and select File > Info > Manage Document > Recover Unsaved Documents. 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! (Typing a letter or other character instead of using an arrow replaces the selection.) I will avoid Modern Comments as long as I can. It makes my work harder and more frustrating. To go back and edit that comment (or any other comment in the document), I can simply click into it and start typing. and there's no option to revert to 'classic comments'. * This update sounds like it should be a good one. I was surprised this worked. Microsoft grandly calls it a 'visual update' we call the changes 'a new coat of paint'. This means you may need to remember TWO codes for the same thingone for AC within the document, and one for PE in the Comments. But when I uploaded that same file to Office.com using my University of Chicago credentials, typing @ in a comment brought up a list of my colleaguesin both the web and desktop versions of Word. Editors Corner posts at Shop Talk reflect the opinions of its authors and not necessarily those of The Chicago Manual of Style or the University of Chicago Press. Escape doesnt do it on my Mac in Office 365. :(. Welcome to OnPodcast: the OnMSFT.com podcast! Comments are slow to open. In Word neither "text prediction" nor "modern comments" are available. Sometimes we remove elements to further improve them based on your feedback. 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. 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. Don't worry, it's not a major change. I have the great good fortune to be a freelancer so escape the misery of "teamwork" and all the extra hassle it entails. Customize Settings. No one. 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. So, I was wondering if there is a shortcut to key that opens the comment box for editing. My personal guess, though, is that it is unlikely to happen, because they have made an effort to redesign the feature based on corporate feedback saying that comments should not be seen (in shared documents) until after they have been posted et cetera (if I have understood the situation correctly). Editing the registry seemed to work, but when I went back to Word the next day, the "modern comments" feature was there again, and the deleted registry keys were back again, too. 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. The new ribbon shows fewer icons and takes up less space. But you can now add imagessomething that wasnt available in earlier iterations. Sometimes, comments are just comments to help the author improve their writing," grumbled another victim of this vision. That may be fine if you only have a few, but if you're working on a tech spec with tens or hundreds, it's almost impossible to tie specific comments in with the text. Leave Word alone. back to normal again. I'm in and I'd pay good money to revert to it. Who was asking for that? It would be nice to be able to just say no to the updates! A vast community of Microsoft Office365 users that are working together to support the product and others. The new modern comments experience will affect files where the first comment was added after your organization has the tenant admin setting enabled. Reg reader Nick H noted: "Comments now seem to float around randomly. Microsoft Office Word Online. Im here to share modern commenting in Word on Windows Desktop. Delete thread option. 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). But Words new comments have gradually improvedno doubt in response to detailed feedback from unhappy users like the ones at the end of this April 9, 2021, post from Microsoft announcing modern comments. Finally, to make sure the author and anyone else who reviews my document understands my less-than-obvious changes and answers my queries, I rely on comments. Thats no doubt part of the plan. I appreciate all of the work Microsoft has put into bringing the Mac version up to speed over recent years. I cannot locate that either. Best practices and the latest news on Microsoft FastTrack, The employee experience platform to help people thrive at work, Expand your Azure partner-to-partner network, Bringing IT Pros together through In-Person & Virtual events. It would be nice to be able to just say no to the updates! Info tab 3. Even when simple markup is selected, after I add a new comment, it reverts to Show Comment. ", Another critic wailed: "I am truly at a loss for words as to why this seemed like a good idea to your development team.". Thank you for your patience.We're rolling out a new comments experience in Word with imp Joo Ferreira Search for: 12 Notifications 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. We cover everything from the Windows Insider program to Windows 10X. 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