What Are Comments in Microsoft Word?

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Dave Andrews, today I'm going to explain to you what are "comments" in Microsoft Word. Let's open Word, and I'll give you a visual example of what "comments" are and how they work. So, let's click on our start button, go "all programs", let's find Microsoft Office, we're going to open up Word. I have a document I'm going to open, that already has some text in it, down here a little bit, and basically it's got a picture and a couple of paragraphs here. Now what "comments' can do for your Microsoft Word is allow people who are going to be reviewing documents to insert comments without actually modifying the text of the document. For instance, let's say I want to comment on this "Easy Server Monitor Complete" right here, let's just say I want to put a comment on there. To do so, let's go to the review tab, first put the cursor where I want the comment to appear. Let's go to the "review" tab, and then under "comments" click on "new comment". Now this comment is going to say, "Do we like the name Easy Server Monitor Complete?" That's just a comment that was inserted on this line, kind of, you know, telling you where that comment appeared and it's off to the side of the page and does not actually affect the, the text of the page, whatsoever. You can then kind of go down here and, let's say, insert another comment, "How does this work?" So there's another comment that we've just inserted into our document without actually changing the text of it at all. And you can also scroll through your comments by going again to this "review" tab, which will say "previous" that'll take us to the previous comment then the one we're looking at, "next" will take us to the next comment in that document. To delete a comment just put your text in, cursor inside of it, go to "comments" and just say "delete". That comment is now gone. My name's Dave Andrews and I've just explained to you; "What are Comments in Microsoft Word?""