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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.
It is surprising that you don't even receive an error message when trying to run the macro.
With regards to the original issue, you can post feedback in the Uservoice forum at word.uservoice.com. Be sure to choose the Word for Mac section at https://word.uservoice.com/forums/304942-word-for-mac.
I can create such a macro, but I don't know if it is going to work in Word for Mac.
You can modify the style manually, but you'd have to do it for each student document separately, of course.
It would be possible to create a macro which adds the style automatically to all documents you open, but that may not be what you want.
If you modify the style in the student's document, then it will remain modified when you return the document to the student provided that the student doesn't have "Automatically update document styles" enabled for the Normal template (which would be unusual).