Review comments disappeared

Anonymous
2014-05-04T12:30:54+00:00

So I've spend long hours addressing student coursework, giving comments on their projects.  They said the comments wouldn't work so I re-opened their documents and they appear to be correct.  Where are all my comments gone?  The actual comment boxes are still there but they are empty.  This is incredibly annoying.  Can I get them back or have they gone forever?  Screen shot provided for reference.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-08-29T13:11:08+00:00

    Many thanks Patricia, this was the best answer and solved my problem.

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  2. Stefan Blom 353.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-30T21:31:40+00:00

    Is what you see similar to the screen shot in the first post in this thread?

    Try the following: Go to the very end of your file (Ctrl+End), press Enter to add a new paragraph, copy everything except for the last paragraph you just added and paste into a new, blank document. Does that change anything? Do your comments re-appear?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-30T21:17:31+00:00

    Nope, at least not in my case. I checked for that early on: not hidden, not white, not there! 

    Thanks anyway.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-07-30T19:48:14+00:00

    I am having the same issue.

    PDF would not help when I expect a different contributor to edit and add comments.

    Thanks

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  5. Stefan Blom 353.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2014-05-04T18:04:47+00:00

    Whether comments are shown depends on the settings on your students' machines. You could always save to PDF (via File | Save As) before sending the comments; that way, you make sure that your comments display the way you want them to.

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