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Modern Comments Don't Show
I may be in the minority of people who like the modern comments. As a lawyer who is using MS Teams to get multiple contributors to give feedback on documents I think the modern comments are clearer and easier to find.
The strange thing is that modern comments work on my home desktop, but not on my work laptop. As a result, I am much better off working on my home desktop. I cannot figure out how to turn them on on my work laptop. I discussed with our IT head and we determined that both of the computers are using the same version of MS Word.
Any ideas?
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No, it’s not recording calls for later use.
It only records a short sample of audio after you choose Report a problem in Teams, and sends it to Microsoft for troubleshooting. It’s not running all the time.Modern comments in Word are tied to your Microsoft 365 account settings and update rollout, not just the Word version.
Sign in with the same account on your workA laptop, ensure Office updates are set to “Current Channel,” and install all updates , then restart Word.AThe new comment design is only added to subscription versions of Office. Your work computer may have a perpetual license such as Office Professional Plus which won't receive feature updates, regardless of version number.
- I have confirmed with out IT department that I have and Office365 E3 license (not to be confused with Microsoft 365 E3 license).
That certainly looks like a subscription version. Are you on some other channel than "Current channel"? See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-update-channels.
