If you later want to view the comments, display the Review tab of the ribbon and use the Next and Previous tools, in the Comments group, to move from comment to comment. We have two versions, one that shows shortcuts for Visual Studio for Mac, and a version that shows Visual Studio shorts side-by-side for users that have prior experience with Visual Studio when using Windows. You can, if you desire, choose a passage of text about which you wish to comment-just select the text as you would normally select it. Then you can either add the OVR command to a toolbar or create a keyboard shortcut. Click the Commands tab and select Overtype from the All Commands category. Another option for Word 2008 is to click Customize Toolbars and Menus on the View menu. However, it was was removed in Word 2008. Comments are normally not printed when you print a document. 'The OVR button in the status bar works with Mac 2004.

If there is no comment in the active cell, a new comment will be created. Comments do not interfere with the main text and appear in their own area of the document. This shortcut will open a comment that exists in the active cell, ready to edit. Word allows you to add comments to your document, as a separate element of the document.