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If you previously inserted comments into your document, using Word's Comment feature, and you want to duplicate one of them, you can use techniques you already know for copying regular text. To copy a comment, follow these steps:
If you want to move a comment to another location in your document (or even to another document), you can use techniques you already know for moving regular text. To move a comment, follow these steps:
To remove a comment from your document, follow these steps:
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2019-09-26 11:37:14
Hanna
What if I don't want to move the comment and the marked text? What if I just want to re position the comment? Same comment, applied to the same text, the text stays in place, but the comment moves up or down in the order of the comments.
2018-07-30 07:55:16
Cameron
So how do you 'highlight the comment mark'?
2015-06-17 04:33:53
Steve
I am searching for a solution and this is NOT it!!
I need to be able to get something before a comment place as the first character in a document. The 'comment mark' is not surrounding anything and is therefore zero length.
It is just ().
I need to be able to get text before it, but nothing will push it down the page and I cannot cut it out.
2014-05-29 17:24:33
Rob
I thought it was impossible to move an existing comment until I read this. I had no idea there was such a thing as a "comment mark" that could be moved. It took me a minute to figure out that you cannot see comment marks if you view comments in balloons. you have to change options to "never" use balloons in order to see them. THEN you can move a comment.
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