![]() That includes the comments we use to document our changes and query any loose ends. Ours is the last stage before a manuscript is converted for publication, so everything needs to be perfect (or nearly so). We aren’t looking for feedback, not until we’re ready for it. Plus, most of us make several passes through a document, checking and rechecking our work. Our documents may live in the cloud (on Dropbox or some other file-hosting service), and we do send them back to the author or publisher when we’re done with them (usually via email), but they’re not shared-not in the real-time, collaborative sense of that word. And there are some real advantages to the new interface.īut Word’s new comments are less easy to get excited about if, like me and most of the other copyeditors I know, you do your main work in isolation. The opposite of modern is outdated, old-fashioned, antiquated. This update sounds like it should be a good one. ![]() If you use Word, and unless you have your updates turned off, there’s a good chance you have them by now, or will soon. Over the last year and a half (beginning in April 2021), Microsoft has been rolling out its “modern comments” to Word 365 users on both Windows and Mac platforms.
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