resulting additional time and loss of productivity (and therefore extra cost to the client) it takes to review/edit documents and make comments for author action (it’s not efficient).lack of connection between comments and the text they relate to (it’s hard to use and is not efficient).
impingement on valuable screen ‘real estate’ (it’s hard to use and is not efficient).extra clicks and mouse movements that have to be done to insert, save, or edit a comment (it’s not ergonomically efficient).loss of functionality that has existed since comments were introduced many years ago (it’s broken).
The main areas of concern, among others, relate to: Also, my testing only dealt with comments about functionality made on this webpage up to. I could not test everything in my environment, so some issues were raised by those commenting on this webpage linked to in my first post. (NOTE: The full testing document has been shared with somebody who may be able to get this raised with Microsoft.
#SWITCH FROM COMMENT MODE TO EDIT MODE WORD MAC UPGRADE#
Since then, I’ve allowed my laptop to upgrade to the latest Word 365 (version 2014, build 13929.20296), and have extensively tested Modern Comments to see what the issues are and how they may affect writers and especially editors, who often work on very long and complex documents written for fields such as the corporate and business world, government, legal and regulatory bodies, medical entities, academia and education, and more, as well as fiction books. I wrote a quick summary of the issues with Modern Comments (MC) nearly two weeks ago ( ).