Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(3).RangeĪ Range:=myRange, _Ĭomments Collection Object Support and feedback Adding a comment is simple: Select the text you want to comment on, or click an insertion point in the text, and then do one of the following to make a new comment appear in the right margin: On the Review tab, click New Comment. Tip: The Office Web Apps are updated all the time with new features. If you don’t have Word, you can try or buy the latest version of Office now. If you have the Word desktop application, use the Open in Word command to open the document and turn on track changes. Something like the following: dim c as Comment For each c in ActiveDocument.Comments Give each comment a unique author. You can access all of the comments via ActiveDocument.Comments. This tutorial shows the basic method to stop Microsoft Word from calling you Author in Track Changes and comments and start using your user name, instead. To add a new comment, click Review > New Comment. As Ahmad indicated, you can change the color of a comment by having the comment have a different author. This example adds a comment to the third paragraph in the active document. If so, someone has used the Document Inspector to remove hidden properties and user information from your file.
Range:=Selection.Range, Text:="review this" Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd Next, type the comment you would like to leave. Once selected, head over to the Review tab and select New Comment, which is found in the Comments group. This example adds a comment at the insertion point. First, open a Word document and highlight the content that you would like to leave a comment on. A variable that represents a ' Comments' collection. Option 1: Comments within MS Office desktop applications. Simply highlight the text and select Insert > Comment to add a note. Returns a Comment object that represents a comment added to a range. Have a question about a specific line of text Want to bring someone’s attention to something in a document Comments are an easy way to communicate with those working inside the same document.