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Comments are a handy way of adding notes to your regular document text and are visible to viewers and collaborators. These can be valuable for communicating with collaborators about specific parts of the document, as well as making notes about changes you've made or would like to make. When you publish your document as a web page or print it, the comments will disappear.
To add a comment to your document, follow these instructions:
- Place your cursor where you'd like your comment to appear or highlight text that you'd like to comment on.
- Go to the Insert menu and click the comment.
- Or when you have the text highlighted a Add a comment option should pop up on the right hand side of your document.
- Click the Comment icon. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+M (Cmd+ Option+ M for Mac) to insert a comment.
- Type your comment in the box that appears to the right of the document, and press the “Comment” button
- There is also an option to make a suggestion on the document. You highlight the text you want to make a suggestion about, and the comment button and suggestion button will pop up. The suggestion button is green.
- To resolve a comment or discussion thread, click the comment and click Resolve.
To view the comment history on a thread, including resolved comments, click the Comments drop-down menu in the upper right of your document, and click Show comment stream.