MS Word 2016 comment bubbles not numbered

Anonymous
2016-11-17T18:10:54+00:00

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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Stefan Blom 353.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2016-11-17T19:42:44+00:00

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.

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  1. Stefan Blom 353.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-05-07T13:44:17+00:00

    When you modify a style, the change only applies to the current document. If you select "Add to template" it adds to YOUR template. It won't affect any template that other users have (even if the name of that template is identical to the template on your computer).

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  2. Stefan Blom 353.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-02-14T10:24:11+00:00

    What are you trying to download? All you have to do is open a Visual Basic Editor window (for example by pressing Alt+F11 or by clicking the Visual Basic button on the Developer tab) in Word, create a Module in the Normal project and paste in the code from my reply in January. Click the Save button on the toolbar. Once you have created and saved the template, you can assign a keyboard shortcut to your newly created macro, so that you can easily run the macro.

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  3. Stefan Blom 353.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2018-04-20T06:39:33+00:00

    If you were to use this mode the printing is so small it is not useable!

    MS needs to reinstate this.. We purchased a word processing program, not a basic text editing program! Give us our features back Microsoft! The many of thousands of users are irate!!

    Feedback on Word for Mac can be added here: https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304942-word-for-mac.

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-05-22T23:04:50+00:00

    Raise the issue at 

    http://word.uservoice.com/

    if it has not already been raised there (search for it)

    In the meantime if you need multiple paragraphs in a comment, use SHIFT+ENTER

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