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• Roll back office update mac windows#

At this point, I believe I'm due a refund. I have paid to use Office 365 which includes Word 2016. (I already recognised one or two names in here from there) Might be worth a look, and an opportunity to pool criticism in one place. I'll also direct your attention to another post in this community, where a couple of us voice our feedback since the celebratory introduction of ths "modern" feature for some time now. I'll gladly take that fancy new cinemascope ultrawide monitor if MS wants to gift me one!Īnother issue is that, of course unless someone decides to open the reviewing pane on a whim, they'll never know what else is hidden in the comment.Īt the moment, the only way seems to be rolling back to an older version of Word and to shut off updates entirely, unless enough voices make MS realise that perhaps giving users OPTIONS instead of arrogantly pressing them into disruptive surprises like this might be the right thing to do. This mess is not convoluted enough yet and there's still too much space on the screen left for the aactul document. Sure let's add yet another pane in addition to the nonsensical separation of margin and comments into two columns, and jump back and forth between them because you basically need the comments pane to navigate the reviewing pane. You are right, formatting and even inserted graphics are still retained in the hidden, and even can still be added to new comments in the reviewing pane, at least for now.Īpparently, those geniuses at MS figured simply referring to the reviewing pane to continue using previously simple functionality of comments is a perfectly sensible design soution, as you can read here: Is it possible to turn off Modern Comments and revert back to the way it used to be? Not something that is necessarily a huge issue but it is annoying and I can't see the purpose for keeping a comment selected when it's posted and non-responsive. There have been a number of times I've posted a comment then tried to ctrl+F something in the document, but it won't respond to my ctrl+F. Once I post a comment, it's still selected. My computer screen isn't large enough to cope with the extra width. It has added an extra space to the side of the document, which wouldn't be an issue except that making any formatting changes under tracked change, which I often also do when marking assignments, goes into the ORIGINAL pane where comments use to be, widening the document even further (extra space for formatting, then another extra space for comments). If I forget to post and try to type a new comment, it pulls me back to my previous comment and starts typing, making me lose my spot where I wanted the next comment You're forced to finish one first, to the standard you're happy for others to see, defeating the purpose of not having to post until it's finished. Sometimes in the course of writing one comment, I want to comment on something else first and then come back to the previous comment. It doesn't make sense to only be allowed to edit one comment at a time, particularly if the idea is to not post them until you're ready to share with others. I also can't just click INTO it to edit, I have to click on more buttons. However, I can't click out of it to finish, I have to click or ctrl+Enter to post.

I don't share my documents, so being able to edit comments and post when they're finalised is not particularly useful for me, as no one else is looking at them until I send the document. There are more steps to use them than before.

Two capital letters at the start of a comment don't get corrected, and simple typos don't get corrected My typing has evolved to use those features.

They don't use the same autocorrect tools as the main text.

Roll back office update mac windows#

If I open a comment using a keyboard shortcut (on a Windows computer) and start typing, the first one or two letters often gets inserted into the main text It's incredibly helpful to be able to insert these quickly and will increase my marking time substantially if I can't use them.Ĭomments are slow to open. Some of these comments are up to a paragraph, or contain URLs to instructions for certain things. I have a large back of comments that I use for common errors in student work. The main issue is that autotext is no longer supported in a comment. I have a number of problems with the useability of these comments, based on the way I have used them in the past (for context, I am an educator and primarily use them when marking student assignments). My Word (on Microsoft 365) has updated to Modern Comments.