Add Text and Voice Comments in Word 2007-Make Notes/Proofread
The comments option is a nice way to add short and important notes in a word document.You can add short notes in specific positions as comments for proof reading and later remove them at your convenience.Word 2007 Lets you to :
- Insert Text and Voice Comments
- Hide or showcase your Comments
- Edit or remove your comments.You can also edit your Display name in Comments.
To add Text comments in Word 2007
1.Open the Word Document and Select the Text where you want to add Comment.
2.Under the Review tab Click on “New Comment”.
3.As soon as you hit the New Comment Button you will see a Balloon opening up where you can add your comments.
4.For easier navigation click on the “Review Pane” button which opens a sidebar where you can see all your comments that you have added in the document.
5.To hide the comments Click on “Balloons” and select “Show all Revisions Inline”.This will hide all your comments and when you hover over a text that has some comment the comment is shown.
6.Now just hover your Mouse over the selected Text and you can see the Comment.
To Delete the comment just right click and select “Delete comment” or click on the Review pane and delete it from there.
To add Voice Comments in Word 2007
Before you want to add “Voice” Comments you have to add the Button “Add Voice” in the Quick Access Toolbar.
To add the “Add Voice” button in the quick access toolbar
Now to insert voice comments in your document click the “Add voice” button from the Quick Access Toolbar.This will open the Default Windows Recorder.Record sound in to that recorder and when finished Word will Automatically insert the voice that you recorded.
To play the audio comment Just double click the Audio icon and word will play the Audio recorded.
Common Questions :
I want to edit the Recording.Do I need to Insert a New Voice Comment ?
No.Right click the audio icon and Select “Sound recorder Document object” and you can edit your recording
How do I hide the comments ?
You can Hide all your Comments.To hide the comments Click on “Balloons” and select “Show all Revisions Inline”.This will hide all your comments and when you hover over a text that has some comment the comment is shown.
How do I change the Display Name in the Comments?
The display name in the Comments Can be Changed very easily.Under the Review Tab Click on Track Changes and then on Change User Name.
Now In the Personalize Option type in your New User Name that you want to appear in your coments
Note that Your new Display name will Appear from the Next Comment Onwards.If you have already added any comments from your Old name then that name will still persist.
If you have still any doubts you can ask me by leaving a Comment.
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This article was informative, but not exactly what I am looking for. I am trying to find a way to add text that is only visable if you hover over a portion of text. This is for a form on which I want to provide definitions for terms, but only visable with the hover. I don’t even know what to call them, let alone find out how to do them. Can you help?
Milita we really regret not to provide the information you were looking for. We are on some other projects. As soon as we are finished we will weite a post on this. keep coming………..
I’m happy to say that I did find the solution to this problem. If anyone else is looking, go to: http://pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3665684.php.
Thanks for the quick response, and I will check back in!
Milita
Milita, I really appreciate that your forwarded help to our readers as well as us. Keep coming……
Interting voice comments.
I follow the steps but alas, when I try inserting a voice comment, I get a window that asks me to search for a package. Help!
In Office 2003, when editing a document you can apply comments to footnotes as well as to the main body of the text, but in Office 2007 the “New Comment” icon is greyed out when you select text in a footnote for comment. Anyone found a way round that?
@Graeme: Sorry, but you cannot add voice comments in the footer in Office 2007. Thanks for the comment.
I didn’t mean voice comments, just ordinary written comments, the kind you put in a balloon in the margin to the main text. And I wasn’t referring to footers, but a normal footnote. Older versions of Office treat footnotes/endnotes as normal text and you can highlight and add comments. But not any more, apparently. Very annoying if you are an editor, and I was hoping someone had found a way round this. Thanks anyway.