Microsoftramccaskill, Editrix, and others have expressed my frustrations perfectly.
I and my editing and document layout colleagues find that these changes to MS Word comments have made our jobs much harder and more time consuming.
And we do not have the option of trying to fix this by rolling back to some previous version of Word in our corporate environment.
(1) It is too difficult to see the "document anchor highlights" that are supposed to light up when I select a comment. The highlights are way too light and don't contrast enough with the typically white background. Please bring back the dotted lines that connected the comment to the content that it applies to.
(2) It is not helpful to have to hit an extra key or button to post new comments. Authors and reviewers inside and outside of our organization make comments on documents, and action items are strictly controlled by the editing team, not by automatic email notices. In addition, our government client must "anonymize" document drafts for privacy reasons, making this feature useless.
(3) The layout of the "modern" comments extends too far to the right of my documents now, taking up extra screen space, which makes it much harder to review two or more documents side by side on the same screen, which is something I must do very frequently.
Please reinstate the previous MS Word comment layout asap!
