Comments Collection Object

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A collection of Comment objects that represent the comments in a selection, range, or document.

Remarks

Use the Comments property to return the Comments collection. The following example displays comments made by Don Funk in the active document.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneComments
ActiveDocument.Comments.ShowBy = "Don Funk"

Use the Add method to add a comment at the specified range. The following example adds a comment immediately after the selection.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
ActiveDocument.Comments.Add Range:=Selection.Range, _
    Text:="review this"

Use Comments(Index), where Index is the index number, to return a single Comment object. The index number represents the position of the comment in the specified selection, range, or document. The following example displays the author of the first comment in the active document.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  MsgBox ActiveDocument.Comments(1).Author

The following example displays the initials of the author of the first comment in the selection.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  If Selection.Comments.Count >= 1 Then MsgBox _
    Selection.Comments(1).Initial

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