Google Docs is a great, useful tool for collaborating and synchronizing your work in one place. Collaboration in Google Docs will eternally benefit communication, which especially works well for remote workspaces. Google Docs provides the“Comments” feature for clarifications during collaborations. The comments feature just acts like a to-do task. Let’s dive deep to learn how to add and hide comments in Google Docs.
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How to Add Comments in Google Docs?
Whether you are editing someone’s work or even you wish to leave notes for yourself for future reference. You will find the comments as a small note on the right-hand side of your Google Docs document.
Follow the below steps
- First, open the Google Docs document that you want to edit.
- Select the particular text in which you would wish to add your comments.
- Once you have highlighted your text, you will have three different approaches to save comments in Google Docs.
- Right-click on the selected or highlighted piece of text –> Choose the “Comment” option. You will see the comment box on the right-hand side of your Google Docs document. Type your valuable comments in the comment text box and then click on the “Comment” button to add the comments.
5. Click on the “Insert” menu –> choose the “Comment.” option. Enter your valuable comment –> click on the “Comment” button.
6. Find the “icon that contains a + (plus) sign inside it” on the right-hand side of your Google Docs document. Enter your comments into the text box and click the blue “Comment” button when you finish typing.
Shortcut to add comments in Google Docs
Once you have highlighted your text to add a comment in docs by the following shortcuts.
- For Mac, press “Command” + “option” + “M” on your Mac keyboard
- For PC, press “ctrl” + “alt” + “M” on PC
Enter your text and then click the blue “Comment” button.
How to comment in Google Docs on a mobile device
- Open the Docs app on your Android, iPhone, or iPad.
- Open your Google Docs document –> tap on the Pencil icon to edit the document you want to add comments to and select/highlight the particular text.
- Tap on the + button –> Choose Comment option.
4. Type your valuable comments and then tap on the send button.
Your text will now be highlighted yellow and your comment will be added.
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How to hide comments in Google Docs?
Let’s discuss here How to Hide or Remove Comments in Google Docs.
- There is no specific approach to hide comments in Google Docs.
- But, If you will resolve some particular comments, you won’t able to see those comments in your Google Docs document. But you can find them in the “comment history” at the top right of the Google Docs document.
- Due to limited space on the mobile app, comments are usually hidden in a menu until you click and open them.
Some may ask “Why can’t I see comments on Google Docs?”.This may be because of the following reasons.
- If the respective collaborator won’t save them correctly, then there is a possibility that you won’t see the comments on the sidebar.
- When you enter a comment in a Google Docs document, It is required to click the “Comment” button so that the comments will get added to your Google Docs document.
- If you or your collaborators don’t save the comment that way, it will be lost forever when you close your Google Docs document.
- Comments will appear in the Google Docs document unless a collaborator resolves or deletes them.
- If a comment was saved and resolved but not deleted, you can find it in the comment history.
FAQs
Can viewers see comments Google Docs
Note that all comments are visible to all the commenters.
How to edit Comments in Google Docs
To edit comments in Google Docs,
- Click the horizontal three dots of the comment section at the right margin of Google Docs.
- Click edit and make your changes.
3. Once done, click Save.
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And voila! You can now add, edit, resolve, and delete your comments in Google Docs with ease!
I am Rajkishore, and I have over 14 years of experience in the Software Industry. For a long time, I have been using Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Sheets for my document usage, and I am sharing all the tips and tricks, the challenges I have come across, and their solutions to use Google Docs for your day-to-day use. I hope you will learn from these practical Google Docs tutorials. Read more.