How to remove all comments from a Word document?
Comments in Word documents are useful for collaboration and providing feedback. However, there may come a time when you need to remove all comments from your document. Manually deleting each comment can be tedious, especially in lengthy documents with numerous comments. In this tutorial, we will guide you through efficient methods to quickly remove all comments from a Word document.
Note: Comments can be shown or hidden by toggling the Show Comments option on the Review tab in Comments group.
Remove comments with the Delete function provided by Word
Follow these steps to remove a single comment or all comments from a document:
- Select the comment you want to remove (skip this step if you want to remove all comments).
- Click Review > Delete, then choose Delete or Delete All Comments in Document. See screenshot:
Note: When you put the cursor in a comment, the Delete option will be available. Otherwise, only Delete All Comments in Document will be available as shown in the screenshot.
One click to remove all comments with Kutools for Word
The Remove Comments utility in Kutools for Word enables you to quickly remove all comments from a document. If you select a portion of the document first, it will only remove comments from the selected part.
- To remove all comments in the document, directly click Kutools > More > Remove All Comments in Selected Ranges. This will remove all comments from the entire document.
- To remove all comments in a specific section of the document, first select the section, then click Kutools > Remove > Remove All Comments in Selected Ranges. This will remove only the comments within the selected section.
Once completed, the comments will be removed, as shown in the screenshots below:
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For more information about the feature, visit our tutorial page.
Remove all comments with VBA code
Using VBA is another easy way to remove all comments from a Word document. Follow these steps:
- Press Alt + F11 to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
- Click Module from the Insert tab, then copy and paste the following VBA code into the module window.
Sub RemoveAllComments() Dim n As Long Dim oComments As Comments Set oComments = ActiveDocument.Comments For n = oComments.Count To 1 Step -1 oComments(n).Delete Next 'n Set oComments = Nothing End Sub - Click the Run button
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