COMMENTING IN DOCS
Inserting Comments
Comments are a handy way of adding notes to your regular document text and are visible to viewers and collaborators. These can be invaluable for communicating with collaborators about specific parts of the document, as well as making notes about changes you've made or would like to make.
To add a comment to your document, follow these instructions:
To add a comment to your document, follow these instructions:
- Place your cursor or highlight the text where you'd like your comment to appear.
- From the Insert menu, select Comment.
- You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+ M to insert a comment.
- Type your comment in the box that appears to the right of the document.
Document Comments
From the Comment drop-down menu in the top right of your document, you can review all comments, including those comments that have been resolved. From this menu, you can also change the notification settings for comments.
Sometimes it can be cumbersome to have to scan through your document to view all comments. If you select the Comments button, you can keep track of all comments throughout the document, including those that have already been resolved. In this view, you can also make comments about the entire document.
Sometimes it can be cumbersome to have to scan through your document to view all comments. If you select the Comments button, you can keep track of all comments throughout the document, including those that have already been resolved. In this view, you can also make comments about the entire document.
Notifications and Engaging with Others
Comments are most useful when you leave them for others to review. You can easily target your comments at particular students, respond to comments from within email, and easily keep track of the comments people leave in your document without having to continually return to the document.
Adding Others to a Comment
You can easily add others to a comment by typing '+' followed by a contact’s name or email address into a comment. Your contacts will auto-populate when you start typing.
Adding someone to a comment will email them a notification containing the comment thread.
Adding someone to a comment will email them a notification containing the comment thread.
Changing Notification Settings
You can control your comment notifications. From the Comments button, select Notification. A drop down menu will open, and you can select the notification settings. You can choose to have notifications for all comments, just replies to you or none.