2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Adding and Managing Comments Effectively

Comments enable people who collaborate on documents to ask questions, provide suggestions, insert notes, and generally annotate a document’s contents without inserting revisions or questions into the body of the document. When you work with a document that contains comments, you can display the comments in the Reviewing pane while viewing the document in any view, or in balloons if you’re working in Print Layout, Full Screen Reading, or Web Layout view. You can display the Reviewing pane in Print Layout, Web Layout, Outline, and Draft views. If you have the Reviewing pane open and switch to the Full Screen Reading view, the Reviewing pane closes and comments are shown in balloons.

When balloons display information, ...