We like to call this the “Collab corner!” To switch between the default, focused view of comments to the right of the page and the Comments pane, simply click the Comments button in the upper right corner of your Word window. When you resolve comments, they’ll be moved out of your way to the Comments pane, where you can always find them later. This allows you to focus on your content without missing active comments related to the part of the document you’re working on. The new experience shows comments to the right of the page by default. Explore modern commenting Choose your view of comments

Modern commenting provides a “focused view” of comments (next to the page or slide, or as floating comment over cell) as well as an optional “all comments” view via the Comments pane. This also completes our goal of aligning the commenting experience across Word platforms and other Office apps, especially in Word, Excel & PowerPoint. The arrival of our new commenting experience sets the stage for a richer Word collaboration experience for your team by enabling modern features such as notifications and more. I’m here to share modern commenting in Word on Windows Desktop. Hi, I’m Kallie Bracken, a Program Manager on the Word team.

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