My Word (on Microsoft 365) has updated to Modern Comments. - edited Windows 11 was officially announced on June 24th, 2021, and is slated for an October 2021 release. so that I can move on. Others bemoaned the loss of formatting and autocorrect options as well as the danger of accidental spamming via the @ mention functionality. (LogOut/ Modern Comments significantly impairs the utility of a Word feature that I've been using for years. Microsoft Office Word Online. Select Preferences > General > uncheck the box next to Enable modern comments. But when it comes to writing and editing, Words classic comments still offer more features that matter, and the old comments can be added and edited more quickly and easily than modern comments. (Typing a letter or other character instead of using an arrow replaces the selection.) 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. 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. Updates to improve accessibility features will be rolling out soon. (LogOut/ As someone pointed out, this version of Word will stop working at some point, so this is not a long-term solution. 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But the requirement to post means that you cant use Find and Replace in comments: Find works, but Replace does not. Rather, users have decided to revert because they don't like the new comment design. For example, say I notice that each time I refer to an author named Smyth, Ive typed Smith by mistake. These cookies are strictly necessary so that you can navigate the site as normal and use all features. But perhaps the temporary fix will make my end of semester grading and commenting on theses and dissertations less work! This allows you to focus on your content without missing active comments related to the part of the document youre working on. The functionality of using comments has been greatly reduced with the introduction of Modern Comments (MC) into Microsoft Word. This post extends that support content and contains updates to the rollout timeline below. That will give you this (to the right of the document): I cant stress enough how great this list view is, especially in any document longer than a few pages. You cant do that using modern comments. Wow, 15 years to 'supports iOS'. 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). Were excited to hear from you! Really! And lets say I start to enter a comment only to change my mind. thanks for people writing this thread, helped save so much time!!!! Be sure to check out our gaming features, like our series What to play on Game Pass, and be sure to check out all the latest Xbox news, too! 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). Everything on the tabs, ribbon and dialogs remains exactly where they are. Well, sorry, it's the law. @Lenka_KerumovaIsn't that such good news. The Comments pane is in fact the reason I now prefer modern comments over classic comments for reviewing longer documents. VERY many thanks to all those who have been involved in this epic! It works just fine. I was despairing at "Modern Comments" and that the world's largest software developer could make such a monumental boo-boo in bringing in this abysmal feature.Steve. 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. Looking for a way to get them back and unsuccessful so far. Not something that is necessarily a huge issue but it is annoying and I can't see the purpose for keeping a comment selected when it's posted and non-responsive. Every time there's an upgrade I check it's still available dreading the day it's removed entirely! My typing has evolved to use those features. I hope I could help you to disable modern comments. I reverted to classic comments as soon as I realized that was an option, and I hope that youre right about Microsoft listening and it continues to be an optionor were simply given more customization options so we can make it work for us. Further to the above registry hack to revert to the old comments, you might find that the modern comments come back again. and there's no option to revert to 'classic comments'. 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. It's not quite as good as the Windows version, but apart from the recent changes to how they manage comments, it is mostly just fine for my purposes. Escape doesnt do it on my Mac in Office 365. Change). That's nice. On Windows, go to your User folder "AppData" "Roaming" "Microsoft" "Templates". Not an Insider? I didnt know about this until now. Find out more about the Microsoft MVP Award Program. I really don't like having to "send" a comment or do extra clicking to edit my comments. If you are using Outlook 2016, 2019, or 365, copy the following line, then right click in the command prompt window to paste it. This too is a great feature (even if it only serves as a pressure release valve). Two capital letters at the start of a comment don't get corrected, and simple typos don't get corrected. Then I would definitely prefer the new comments to the old. At this time the modern comments cannot be disabled and Microsoft is aware of the complaints. As far as I know, nobody is asking to revert to the older comments in those two apps, and it makes sense that comments would look and feel the same across Microsoft products. Check these posts out!! The old form of the comments is displayed. Clicking back into the document also works. Sometimes in the course of writing one comment, I want to comment on something else first and then come back to the previous comment. Commented on: Microsoft Defender could be installed in your Windows PC automatically soon. I want them to focus on the changes that matter. No one. Existing files with comments will not be affected Modern comments can't be read by PowerPoint 2019 or older, including subscription and perpetual versions. Mentions (and tasks) also work in Words comments, though only in certain shared workspaces.. Formatting is next to impossible and many many other features are not available. But where is Preferences hidden? To edit a comment in Google Docs, you need to click through a menu (and comments are ignored by Find and Replace). Open the View menu and select Comments. 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. Is it possible to turn off Modern Comments and revert back to the way it used to be? Unfortunately, we must expect that the option will disappear some day. Sep 26 2021 Help the next person who has this issue by indicating if this reply solved your problem. Two capital letters at the start of a comment don't get corrected, and simple typos don't get corrected. I am a Mac user. Select the dialog box launcher in the Styles group. 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. 11:07 AM Collaboration put Docs on the map, and many people want Word to work like that also. Note that Microsoft does not actively monitor the Tech Community forum for product feedback, as far as I know. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. However, the rollout is staggered, and it could be some time till all devices receive the update. Heres where to start! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Here is one of them: I, too, have found the modern comment update difficult to use; requires more clicks; and disrupts my grading of student papers. Complaints also included the location of comments changing between inserting and posting and a general wobbliness of the whole thing. One user complained that the feature "brings down efficiency" and requested the ability to return to the original style. Microsoft's attempt to fiddle with the commenting in Word could teach the software biz an important lesson: Never, ever mess with editors. If you use Group Policy to manage Office settings, there will be a policy setting that admins can use to turn off the ability for users to opt-out of Modern comments.". Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Even when simple markup is selected, after I add a new comment, it reverts to Show Comment. Entries (RSS) 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). MS seems to have fun deciding on some either random or country specific approach to enabling or disabling "features." It looks like most people will currently have the option to switch it off, in File>Options>General, but it's nice to know the images aren't completely gone in the new version, just hidden in the Review pane. 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? 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). 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. However, I can't click out of it to finish, I have to click or ctrl+Enter to post. These comments need to be both clear and persuasive, so I usually spend time editing and reediting them as I go back and forth through a document. 01:45 AM. https://www.change.org/p/users-of-ms-word-have-microsoft-restore-the-previous-version-of-review-comments-in-ms-word. Press Ctrl + Alt + M. Right-click any text and select New comment in the context menu. They have indicated an intention to remove this option in the future. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. -- Diane Poremsky Give back to the Community. So much functionality has been lost, while other functions that used to take no time at all now require several clicks to access. Working with Tables. When will they do it. Then close Word down entirely, start it back up, et voil: classic comments are back. Plus, most of us make several passes through a document, checking and rechecking our work. 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! Microsoft Teams first launched in March of 2017 and has picked up many new features since then. Dec 04 2022 , The Register Biting the hand that feeds IT, Copyright. Every time a machine 'updates' MS Word, I have to 'UPGRADE BACK' to Word 15.5! I have sent feedback several times using the in-app feedback button. Microsoft has also emphasized the need for a uniform design of comments across Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Here are two ways to delete comments. In the meantime the recommendation is to use the feedback box. Thanks! * Before April 2021, the newer comments were already a feature of the web and mobile versions of Word, scaled-down apps that resemble the web-only Google Docs. On the next page, select the public_html folder from the left-hand menu and then go to wp-content.. Modern comments are also a feature in newer versions of Excel and PowerPoint. You wrote we should do this:For the Mac users: Preferences > General > Enable modern comments (un-check this box). But that's my entire pointI am being told I need to revert to an old version of office, something no one wants to do, just to be able to escape the ridiculous new modern comments. 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. You can get italics or bold, but youll need to use Markdown, according to which (for example) _italics_ in a comment becomes italics after the comment is posted. My typing has evolved to use those features. Thank you for this detailed comparison! 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. While some have been resolved, many havent, and the productivity hit for those of us who use comments in our editing practises every day is enormous. It has added an extra space to the side of the document, which wouldn't be an issue except that making any formatting changes under tracked change, which I often also do when marking assignments, goes into the ORIGINAL pane where comments use to be, widening the document even further (extra space for formatting, then another extra space for comments). Not something that is necessarily a huge issue but it is annoying and I can't see the purpose for keeping a comment selected when it's posted and non-responsive. Thats no doubt part of the plan. Figure 21. With modern comments, you no longer have to worry about your comments being seen by others before you're finished editing them. 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. I have no need of a chat mode in software that I use for work. I've retweeted your Tweet and liked all your other updates. And you cant use an equation editor to insert equations. 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. other information you should include in your feedback. You cant add images or equations, and you cant change font size or color. Put your cursor where it needs to bein the document or in a commentand start typing or deleting or finding and replacing or whatever. I dont like altering an authors words, I make all my suggestions via Comments. Please Microsoft!!! 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. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. For more info and to customize your settings, hit Not everyone wants or needs to make changes in real time. Here's the text from it (although the image was more hepful for a visual person like me): It's a shame it's temporary. Comments are slow to open. Maybe we need to offer MS a bitcoin as ransom to get them to give us an option to use our old comment system. Office themes are not yet fully supported. 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. Open the plugins or themes folder, depending on which software you are planning to replace. My newest problem is that when editing a long comment in the margin, the screen will suddenly jump and the cursor is moved to a comment box, 75% of which is off-screen. Don't worry, it's not a major change. 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). Why should I change to problematic upgrades? 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. :). There are more steps to use them than before. Let's get this monster de-fanged! Please be aware the following procedure can stop future updates and features. Select the Home tab in the ribbon. Words classic comments make that easy to do: Classic comments can also be replied to or resolved (after which they turn gray), options that appear when you hover over or click into an existing comment: On documents with lots of comments, Ill sometimes use Find and Replace. Why not allow multiple to be in draft? After to you delete the following keys again. 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. :-(. Finally, click the Post comment button to publish it. To get back into the document, I hit the Esc key. However, "Not everyone needs to chat via a Word doc. . 12:44 PM 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. That cartoon is hilarious. 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. Modern comments continue to work like comments did before. Formatting in Modern Comments: Beyond Google Docs. Oh no, you're thinking, yet another cookie pop-up. Nov 21 2022 I found the numbering of comments a very useful feature, especially when there were multiple comments on one page. Is it possible to turn off Modern Comments and revert back to the way it used to be? Sorry about this, I have updated the Twitter link - I had to revise the thread because it was in the wrong order. Figure 2. I wish it were permanent, too. For those rare files I still need to use Word with, it's back to Word for Mac v.15.50. You made my day! Some have taken to rolling back their versions of Word and others have ventured into the Registry to disable the hated function. It is best known as Microsofts take on Slack, the popular cloud-based proprietary instant messaging platform. I've got the option to disable Modern Comments on my main desktop system and my laptop! I use this feature to give positive feedback as well. Comments are slow to open. Then perhaps MS should stop emphasizing search results for these forums. A vast community of Microsoft Office365 users that are working together to support the product and others. 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. Ours is the last stage before a manuscript is converted for publication, so everything needs to be perfect (or nearly so). Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. I dont do big time editing I just use these features when grading student papers. Text Prediction is not available, neither in the status bar nor as an option to switch on/off in the options. My Word (on Microsoft 365) has updated to Modern Comments. Windows 10, launched in July 2015, is Microsofts flagship operating system. Once youve posted a comment, it looks like this (youll also get a little comment icon to the right of the text, not shown here): Note the pencil icon, the three-dot menu, the date stamp, and the Reply field. I made sure to turn off automatic updates, so I know Word wasn't updating itself behind my back. After to you delete the following keys again. No one likes these changes. I've disabled updates but wonder if that in itself will cause issues. @chiara369In addition to the many, many issues others have complained about, this new function no longer allows images and photos to be added, and has wiped out every single image saved in two vast memoirs I'm editing for clients, wiping out years of work. Over the last year and a half (beginning in April 2021), Microsoft has been rolling out its "modern comments" to Word 365 users on both Windows and Mac platforms. [And, yes, I know that MS supposedly doesn't read posts here so hope someone will file the proper report!]. Click Yes or No below. Open Word and click on the Word in the menu on the top of the screen. My typing has evolved to use those features. 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. If this isn't for you, there's a very easy way to get the classic ribbon back. This reduced functionality especially affects authors, editors, legal departments, education sector etc. I had the lines connecting comments to the texts recently disappear and it is extremely frustrating. Modern Comments (horrible name!) 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. Thanks, Russell. It would be nice to be able to just say no to the updates! Any ideas/info on what else was deleted? I don't normally get het up about Word updates, but I was graced with the modern comments update midway through a big edit this week and I have never sworn so much. 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. At least on the updates rolled out to me as of 11/10/21, there's now an option to "temporarily" revert back. I'm just curious what else I changed when I deleted all those keys Can I remove Modern Comments and revert back? This worked for me too: MUCH better. You can resize and move the Comments pane (list view); macro to resize the Comments pane: Another workaround: Avoid using Modern Comments entirely, and instead use EndNotes and macros that work in EndNotes. One problem is with that pesky requirement to "Post" a comment. It's incredibly helpful to be able to insert these quickly and will increase my marking time substantially if I can't use them. Learn moreabout what other information you should include in your feedback to ensureits actionable and reaches the right people. Great question! I dont currently have access to a Mac, however (sorry). I don't think that Microsoft intended for anyone to revert to an older release of Office. The most obvious thing that makes Words modern comments different from its classic comments is that you now need to post a comment before you can return to the document. Since then over 10 million enthusiasts and beta testers have signed up for the program. I can still use it in version 16.67. Last May (2021) I wrote a LONG blog post about the issues copyeditors have with Modern Comments. By saving it to OneDrive (Microsofts answer to iCloud and Google Drive and Dropbox and the like), I was able to share the file with myself via the Share button in the ribbon and observe simultaneous edits (and comments) on a second computer. Modern comments are a lot like the comments in Google Docs. Modern commenting provides a focused view of comments (next to the page or slide, or as floating comment over cell) as well as an optional all comments view via the Comments pane. Thanks!! 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