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Viewing Comments From a Specific Reviewer

Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated February 6, 2025)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021

Each comment you enter into a document includes the initials of the person who created the comment. Word keeps track of who entered the comments and can easily show you the comments of a specific person. To take advantage of this way of viewing comments, follow these steps:

Make sure that you are viewing comments.
Display the Review tab of the ribbon.
In the Tracking group, click the Show Markup drop-down list. When you choose the Reviewers option (earlier versions of Word) or the Specific People option (later versions of Word) from the list, you see a list of different reviewers who have made comments in the document.
Hide or display comments from individual reviewers by selecting their names from the list.

WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (11814) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Viewing Comments From a Specific Reviewer.

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Allen Wyatt

With more than 50 non-fiction books and numerous magazine articles to his credit, Allen Wyatt is an internationally recognized author. He is president of Sharon Parq Associates, a computer and publishing services company. Learn more about Allen...

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What is seven more than 3?

2021-12-03 11:44:21

Jim

Allen, I may be incorrect about the following (which may be 'splitting hairs').
I believe your item is in reference to "reviewers' and not to 'commenters'. Both are possible in MSWord - a 'reviewer' makes a suggested change while a 'commenter' essentially puts notations in the margin.
I was trying to find a way for a 'commenter' to be identified (to distinguish individuals) and found the following item on-line:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/comments-in-word-2016-displayed-as-author/2341d440-a4f2-4346-8c65-3a25c16c6992

2021-12-01 19:02:09

Jim

2020-10-04 13:32:19

Milica

Bravo!

2020-09-23 16:03:00

Doug Belling

What does it mean when Show Markup/Specific People shows 'All Reviewers' but the person listed below is dimmed?

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