Removing All Comments

Word allows you to easily add comments to your documents. (In Word 6 and Word 95, comments were known as annotations.) There may come a time when you want to get rid of all of them. In order to do so, you can follow these steps:

1. Choose Replace from the Edit menu, or press CTRL+H. Word displays the Find and Replace dialog box with the Replace tab selected for Word 97 or later. (Click here to see a related figure.) Word 6 or Word 95 will show the Replace dialog box. (Click here to see a related figure.)
2. In the Find What box, enter ^a.
3. Make sure the Replace With box is empty.
4. Click on Replace All.

This should do the trick. In some cases, however, Word may be a bit touchy and not delete all the comments. (I am not sure why; it just is at times.) In this case, simply make sure that the Comment pane is open (Select Comments from the View menu) before doing the replace operation.