Attaching your comments to specific parts of a document makes your feedback more clear. If someone else is commenting on the document, replying to their comments lets you have a discussion, even when you're not all in the document at the same time.
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Select the content you want to comment on.
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Go to Review > New Comment.
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Type your comment. If you want to make changes to any of your comments, just go back and edit them.
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To reply to a comment, go to the comment, and select Reply.
Practice with comments and other collaboration features in Word by downloading this Collaborate in Word learning guide.
Delete comments
Right-click the comment, and choose Delete Comment.
To delete all the comments in the document, go to the Review tab, click the down-arrow on Delete, and choose Delete All Comments in Document.
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