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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.
I used the following method for Word in Office 365 and it worked.
https://libroediting.com/2016/09/21/how-to-add-comment-balloon-numbering-in-word-2013-2016/
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.
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!
I tried adding paragraph numbering but it doesn't work for me. My comments sometimes have multiple paragraphs and I only want one number per comment.
Not having numbers in the comment bubbles is a major issue for me! I routinely work on documents of 50-100 pages and they may contain over 100 comments. It is very hard to tell reviewers to look at the comment on page 58, 5th paragraph, 2nd sentence. In 2010 all I had to do was say to look at Comment 43. Does anyone know whether Microsoft is considering putting the numbers back in?
Thanks,
Vivian