MicrosoftI have just come across the new so-called "Modern Comments" reviewing a document from a colleague. I have wasted a lot of time searching for a way to turn these off and revert to the way Comments have worked for years and to my great dismay, and great surprise, I find there is no way to do this. For a start, having comments ("Start a Conversation...") come up in separate boxes off to the right of the (empty) reviewing pane is idiotic. What is the point of this waste of screen real estate; it is just another example of screen bloat introduced to make the view look fancy with no regard to utility, efficiency or fitness for purpose. I review documents from users with earlier versions of Word so I am assuming that all my "Start a Conversations" will be lost when I send my reviews back to them. My solution in this first case I have come across of "Modern Comments" is to type out my comments in an email with a reference to where they pertain to and send them separately. "Modern" comments indeed.
