Jun 15 2021 12:35 PM
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?
Jun 16 2021 10:13 AM
The 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.
Jun 16 2021 10:36 AM
Jun 16 2021 11:18 AM
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.
Jun 16 2021 11:29 AM - edited Jun 16 2021 11:30 AM
I have confirmed with our IT department that feature updates are set to be installed as soon as they are ready (aka Current Channel).
Jun 23 2021 12:15 PM
Jul 11 2021 05:11 AM
I guess it would be possible that policies have been enforced to prevent certain features from working, but your IT department should know if they did that...
Jul 11 2021 08:01 AM