MicrosoftI use commentary to explain to authors why I have edited their words they way I have. I commonly make edits using the revision markup feature to fix usage and punctuation errors. Sometimes I have to explain to authors that a sentence without a verb is not a sentence, or perhaps why I broke one of their paragraphs into two. Immediately underneath a paragraph edited with my revision marks, I will insert that same paragraph recast with my edits to make it easier for the author to understand what I've done. I don't do this on all editing jobs, but when editing a text by someone who tells a compelling story but only has the most elementary of writing skills, I will use the comments as a teaching aid to help them improve their writing. When the comments were not displaying as expected when the modern comments came along, I could no longer see my commentary in the format I was accustomed to seeing. I print the edited text with comments into a pdf to share with my authors -- you have to instruct the software to include the comments.
