Hiding comments will remove the comment sidebar from the right side of the Word document while deleting comments will permanently remove them from the document. The easiest way to delete a comment is by right-clicking on the balloon and clicking Delete Comment. Additionally, you can do the same thing inside of the Reviewing Pane. The Reviewing Pane. Delete comments Right-click the comment, and choose Delete Comment. To delete all the comments in the document, go to the Review tab, click the down-arrow on Delete, and choose Delete All Comments in Document. If you delete text that has a comment attached to it, the word is deleted (with a strike-through) but the comments associated to that text disappear. The comments should remain. See these 2 screenshots.
Step 1:
To remove editor comments, open your document using Microsoft Word. Notice that an editor comment has highlighted the first paragraph, which is circled in red in this example. The corresponding editor comment is circled in blue.
To remove editor comments, open your document using Microsoft Word. Notice that an editor comment has highlighted the first paragraph, which is circled in red in this example. The corresponding editor comment is circled in blue.
Step 2:
Right click on the Editor Comment. A new drop-down menu will appear; select Delete Comment.
Right click on the Editor Comment. A new drop-down menu will appear; select Delete Comment.
*It is important that you address the editor comment. Microsoft Word does not automatically make the change suggested by the editor. Editor comments are used to clarify your document, to teach you how to correct a recurring problem, or to ask you to elaborate on a topic.
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Step 3:
Notice that the first paragraph is no longer highlighted in red, and that the corresponding editor comment has been deleted.
Notice that the first paragraph is no longer highlighted in red, and that the corresponding editor comment has been deleted.
How to remove timestamps from existing comments in Word document?
Normally, when inserting comment in Word document, a timestamp will be created automatically at the same time as below screenshot shown. Sometimes, you don’t want to display the timestamp of the comment, how can you remove it? This article will show you a method to deal with it.
Remove timestamps from existing comments in Word
Please do as follows to remove timestamps from existing comments in a Word document.
1. Open the folder contains the Word document which you will remove the timestamp from the existing comments.
2. Make sure the File name extensions box is checked, then, right click the file and select Rename option, change extension of the Word document from “.docx” to “.zip”, then press the Enter key. See screenshot:
3. In the opening Rename prompt box, click the Yes button.
4. Now the Word document is turned to a zip file as below screenshot shown, please unzip this file. In this case, I right click the zip file and select WinZip > Unzip to unzip the file.
5. Then the file has been unzipped in current folder. You need to find and open a folder which named “word”, and open the comment.xml file and the document.xml file separately with the Notepad application. Please right click it, and then choose Open with > Notepad. See screenshot:
6. In the opening comments.xml – Notepad window, you need to:
- 6.1) Press the Ctrl + F keys to open the Find dialog box;
- 6.2) Enter 'Your Name' w:date=' into the Find what box (here I enter “siluvia” w:date=”) and click the Find Next button.
- 6.3)Then the searched result will be highlighted in the window, please replace the 'Your Name' w:date=' with 'Your Name' w:ignore='.
- 6.4)Repeat the above two steps until all occurrences of 'Your Name' w:date=' are changed to 'Your Name' w:ignore='.
- 6.5) Save and close the file. See screenshot:
7. Repeat the step 6 to change all occurrences of 'Your Name' w:date='to 'Your Name' w:ignore=' in the document.xml –notepad window.
Removing Comments In Word 2016
8. Rezip all files and folders you have unzipped out in step 4. Now a new zip file is created as below screenshot shown.
9. Convert the zip file to a Word document by changing the extension of the zip file to .docx. See screenshot.
Note: you can change the document name to the original one as you need.
Open the Word document, you can see all timestamps of existing comments are removed.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Changes all the dates to January 1, 1900 so looks really suspicious
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.It worked for me. I used Total Commander for renaming the files - and Notepad for search and replace. Thank you!
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.Worked for me. Thanks!! Used WinZip. Didn't work with RAR.
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.It didn't work for me either
- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.This did not work for me. I used WinRAR, don't know if this caused the problem. The Word file could not be opened afterwards.