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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.
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.
How is this done??
FYI..in Word 2016, 365 there is NO comment numbering regardless of the view. This was removed stupidly and purposefully by Microsoft. Tell us how to number ANYTHING in someone else's document...THAT is the bigger problem. Editing/publishing/Dissertation work is using someone else's work that needs to have numbered comments otherwise this product (MS Word 2016 365 ) is worthless!! HELP!
Note that this thread only deals with Office for Windows. Personally I have never used Word for Mac, so I am not familiar with it.
It is true that even Word for Windows displays the user initials plus comment number in a printout (and in the preview at File | Print).
But in a Mac, which my daughter uses, the comments are all numbered in her doc view.
Doug, perhaps you could also repost the macro you created about a month ago, in case someone wants to try it.