Microsoftnickhunn Similar problem here. I work for a publishing house, and most of our authors use older versions of Word than we do, or open source packages. This will be an utter disaster!
The loss of autocomplete/replace means I have to have another doc open with parts to copy/paste over when needed. Not conducive to speedy work when you have lots of standard comments. I really don't want to transfer many more of those over to macros/keyboard shortcuts than I have done.
I do not understand the need for much change on this. Anyone wanting that sort of ''I need an answer now"' kind of reaction to a comment is surely already using a messaging app with colleagues, I know we do. But even if collaborating in real time, there are many of us collaborating on documents but at different times that do not need this approach. Couldn't there be a means of switching real-time collaboration off and maintaining the old system?
It wouldn't be so bad if it at least maintained proper functionality. Instead it appears to be "background listening'' whilst you type in a comment, as it says something like "comment in progress'' in the Reply part of other comments. It doesn't catch clicks well, I found I had to change cursor focus and click away first for it to recognise a click in order to edit. And of course you have to now click Edit rather than just clicking where you had previously typed. I discovered search works but also rather randomly.
I have only been on a single screen today so I did not have the experience of multiple windows (usually I split between two screens). But I also dislike the fact comments take up so much space. I don't understand the idea behind the contextual view. The biggest problem I had with comments was their disappearing after comparing documents and accepting all changes.
I hope there is a revert feature in the future. If that is indeed a fact that comments won't be backward compatible, this really won't fly at all.
I have to wonder whether coders at MS actually ever use these products extensively themselves. I note the big fanfare statement about a comment pane can now be seen on the right.
I have rolled back to March 18th successfully ... anything more recent just left comments as they were in "modern'' form.
Having given up on resisting the grey icon "progress"on toolbar appearance and updating last year, it looks like 5 months into my subscription, I am forced to turn updates off yet again until autotext/complete returns. Thankful I managed to revert successfully. I will note down how I did it because i'm sure I will eventually need to yet again and I always forget exactly how to.
