Inserting Comments

When you review an Office document, you can insert comments to the author or other reviewers. Comments are like electronic adhesive notes tagged with your name . They appear in yellow boxes in PowerPoint, as red triangles in Excel, or as selected text in Word. You can use comments to get feedback from others or to remind yourself of revisions you plan to make. A comment is visible only when you show comments and place the mouse pointer over the comment indicator.

Insert and Delete a Comment

Click where you want to insert a comment.

Click the Insert menu, and then click Comment.

Type your comment in the comment box or pane.

Click outside the comment box. In Word, click the Reviewing Pane button, if necessary, to close the pane.

To edit or delete a comment, right-click the comment, and then click Edit Comment or Delete Comment.

Read a Comment

Click the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Reviewing to display the toolbar.

On the Reviewing toolbar, click the Show/Hide Markup button in PowerPoint, or click Show, and then click Comments in Word.

Point to a red triangle in Excel or yellow box in PowerPoint.

Read the comment.

Click the Previous or Next button on the Reviewing toolbar to read another comment.