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MicrosoftPDF note-taking enhanced with support for text comments
Greetings Insiders,
The ability to add text comments on PDF documents is one of the features we provided for the PDF reader in legacy Microsoft Edge. We have heard feedback that some of you miss this useful feature, so we are pleased to announce that we are bringing it back to Microsoft Edge! Here is how you can access this functionality in the latest version of Canary and Dev.
To try it out, open any PDF file in Microsoft Edge. Select the piece of text you want to comment on and invoke the right click context menu. You will see the new Add comment option in the menu.
Clicking that option will open a text box where you can add your comment. Then simply type the comment you want to leave on the document, then click the checkmark to save the comment.
Once a note is added, the selected text will be highlighted, and a comment icon will appear to indicate the comment. You can hover over that icon to preview the comment or click on it to open and edit it.
Alternatively, you can also add comment on a text highlight you had previously added in the document. Just right click on any existing text highlight to add a comment on it. You can add as many comments as you want on a PDF document. You can also delete the comments previously added using the Delete button present inside the note.
Once you are done adding your comments on the document, you can save the document so that your comments are saved as part of the document. You can access the comments anytime later by opening the saved document in Microsoft Edge.
Try out the text comment tool in latest Canary or Dev channel and let us know what you think! We would love to hear your feedback to make improvements in future. From within Microsoft Edge, you can go to “…” menu > Help and feedback > Send feedback, or simply use the shortcut (Shift+Alt+I) on a PC to open the feedback tool.
- The Microsoft Edge Product Team
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Thank you vygadeka
It is very helpful feature and hope to see it in official release of Microsoft Edge soon.
It would have been nice if there was possibility of add different color for comments too. In addition, having ability to navigate to next or previous comment (like feature in Microsoft Word) would have been interesting.
In case of ability to set different color, usability study is needed so it won't conflict with Highlight colors.
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Reza_Ameri-Archived wrote:Thank you vygadeka
It is very helpful feature and hope to see it in official release of Microsoft Edge soon.
It would have been nice if there was possibility of add different color for comments too. In addition, having ability to navigate to next or previous comment (like feature in Microsoft Word) would have been interesting.
In case of ability to set different color, usability study is needed so it won't conflict with Highlight colors.
You can already add different colors for comments, it's done using highlights.
no conflicts.
I think in the table of contents of PDFs, there should be indications so we can see which pages contain notes/comments.
vygadeka Thanks for the update. It's great to see these improvements on PDFs.
This is one of the most requested features users asks for at Forums. Looking forward to give it a try!
- Like this feature, too.
- I really hope that this feature will be released to the stable version very very soon. It would help me soooo much for my online class. I'd always open my lecture video, while annotate my pdf with highlights and comments for additional information given by my lecturer. I'm now using Adobe Reader just for the highlight with comments feature but the overall performance of Adobe Reader is just not as fluid and seamless as utilizing pdf on Edge. I can't wait to use it on Edge. Thanks!
