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Word hiding comments on text with tracked changes
This is an extremely frustrating bug that I've been experiencing for maybe six months or more in Microsoft 365. If I add a comment to text that I've changed via track changes (e.g. I've bolded it), the comment will be irretrievably hidden, though the commented-on text will still he highlighted, suggesting there is a comment there; it just can't be seen.
This doesn't happen with all changes, though font changes seem to be the biggest culprit. It's annoying when I forget it's there, take a couple minutes writing a comment explaining changes for a client, only to see it disappear and not be able to even retrieve the text I wrote. I hope there's a fix coming for this soon?
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I'm having the same problem in Word 2019. The comments are still visible and editable if you open the Reviewing Pane, but boy, it's sure obnoxious and inefficient. I reported it, too. Hopefully they fix it.
This is a known issue which has been reported to Microsoft.
