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I am using MS Office 2016 and it seems that comment bubbles are no longer numbered like they were in previous versions. When a reviewer using an older version of Word refers to a specific comment by its number, I cannot tell which comment they are referring to because the comments are not numbered in Word 2016. Does anyone know why this feature was removed or how to fix it? It is extremely frustrating that the numbering of comments has been removed. Thank you,
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In Word 2016 (and 2013), comment numbers only display when you look at the print preview (at File | Print) or when you print the document, unfortunately. As a workaround, you can apply paragraph numbering to the Comment Text style.
Thank you very much for your reply. I would be interested in understanding Microsoft's rationale for removing this feature or at least not allowing the option to revert the feature, as I find this horribly detrimental to the utility of the comment bubbles. Either way, now I have a work around in viewing in print preview, so thank you again for replying.