This is Taylor with how to remove comments in Word and first off,
I'll show you how to remove them completely so they no longer exist in your Word
document and you can wipe out all of your personal data as well at the same
time, which I'll show you how to do it in just a second,
and then I'll show you how to hide comments in Word without fully deleting them,
if you just want to declutter your workspace a little bit. But first off,
let's start off with section one how to remove comments in Word.
And here I have a Microsoft Word document that's loaded up with comments from my
other video where I showed you how you could quickly add them by setting up the
new comment command here on your QAT and you can check that out here on YouTube
if you're interested.
Now we're deleting comments and to do that you can simply right click the
comment and either with your mouse select, delete comment,
which will remove the comment. All right?
It's not going to be able to come back unless you control Z to undo it.
So we're not hiding comments yet. A faster way,
if you need to frequently do this is to right click the comment.
Notice that the D is underlined.
That means that you can hit that key on your keyboard to delete it.
So I can just right click, hit D to delete, right click D to delete. And again,
we're totally removing the comments from the document.
We are not hiding them yet. Now if you have a whole bunch of comments,
you want to remove all comments from your Word document,
you want to simply come up to the review tab, come and find this,
delete drop down, and simply select delete all comments in the document.
I'll show you a better way to do this in just a second,
but if I select delete all comments,
you can see that all of the comments are removed.
They're not hidden from my Word document.
Now I'm going to control Z to undo that cause there's another way to delete all
comments in Word and scrub out all of your personal data. To do that,
you're not going to use the review tab. Instead,
you're going to come to the file tab. You're going to come to info,
you're going to come to check for issues.
You're gonna open inspect document. It seems like a lot of clicks,
but once you click yes, all right, we're going to look for comments, revisions,
and versions. We're gonna look for document properties.
We're going to look for all sorts of stuff that we want to scrub out of our
document before we send it along as final I'll click inspect.
It inspects the document. There, you can see the comments,
revisions and versions. I will remove all remove move all document properties.
I'll remove all of this too and then I will close out and you can see all of the
comments are gone.
So there's a couple of different ways to hide comments here in Word.
We want to hide our comments. We don't want to fully delete them,
like I showed you just a second ago. The first way,
if you just within your Word document, if you come to the Review tab,
you should be at all market by default.
Below that you have show markup and here you have the option to see what kind of
things you want marked up in your presentation. If we don't want comments,
we simply unselect it and all of the comments are removed.
Now they aren't deleted,
they're just hidden at this point because we can always come back,
which I recommend always doing and adding your comments back.
If you remove comments or hide comments like this and send the Word document off
to someone and tell them to fix the comments,
they might not know that they can come and open up this show markup from the
review tab and bring the comments back into the document.
That's why I prefer or would recommend hiding your comments in this way.
You want to to the all markup dropdown and you want to select a simple markup.
Now notice here that I have a command show comments, which is greyed out.
Watch what happens as I select simple markup.
That command becomes colored in and I can click it,
watch what happens to my comments as I click it and they become these little
speech bubbles. So in this way, I've hidden my comments so they're not all,
you know, tangled up here on the right,
but I can easily see where someone has left a comment for me and I can click it
to see what that is.
So I find this to be the easiest way to hide or remove your comments without
actually deleting them and still being able to open and close them. Like this,
I'm going to come back.
You can simply select show comments and they're going to pop back up.
And as you hover over them,
you'll see that kind of like pink pinkish thing of where it is in your document.
Now the final way to hide your comments without removing them or deleting them
is simply to come to no markup, no markup will remove all of the track changes,
comments, et cetera within your document if you want to come back and see,
all right, all markup, all the different revisions, um, track changes,
et cetera in your document. You just come back to the default, all markup.
So that's how to delete comments and Word and your different options for hiding
comments instead of deleting them. If you found this video helpful,
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