To collapse the thread after reading it, press the Up arrow key until you reach the first comment, and press Enter. If the comment thread has replies, press Enter to expand the thread, use the Down and Up arrow keys to navigate between the replies, and read them individually as instructed above. With JAWS, press Alt+Shift+Apostrophe (‘). To read the first comment of the thread, with Narrator, press the SR key+0. The focus moves to the thread in the side track, or in the Comments pane if you have it open. To move to the previous comment thread, press Alt+R, V. To move to the next comment thread from your current location, press Alt+R, N. No matter where you are in the document, you can quickly jump to and read the next or previous comment thread. When you’re done, press the Tab key until you hear: “OK button.” Then press Enter to close the dialog box and return the focus to the body text. JAWS reads the comments and tells you who left the comment and when. In the Reviewer’s Comments dialog box, use the Up and Down arrow keys to move in the comment list.

Press Ctrl+Shift+Apostrophe (‘) to open the list of comments. To return the focus to the body text, press Alt+F12.

If the comment thread has replies, press Enter to expand the thread, use the Down and Up arrow keys to navigate between the replies, and press the SR key+0 to read each of them. To read the first comment of the thread, press the SR key+0. For each comment thread, you hear the name of the person who started it, and the number of replies if the thread has any. To browse the comment threads in the pane, use the Down and Up arrow keys. If the focus was on a commented piece of text, you hear the details of that comment thread instead, and you don't need to press the Tab key. The focus moves there and you hear: 'New comment, button.' Press the Tab key to move to the first comment thread. Press Alt, Z, C to open the Comments pane. Sometimes you might want to browse a list of all comment threads instead of reading the body text until you find a comment. To read the previous comment, that is, the one you just passed, refer to Navigate between comments. Your screen reader announces when it finds a comment in the text. Press the SR key+Down arrow key to start continuous reading from your current location in the text. You can also use your screen reader's other keyboard commands to navigate, for example, line by line. In the markup list, press the Up or Down arrow key until you hear “All Markup,” and press Enter to select. The markup menu is expanded and you hear the name of the currently selected markup. To change to All Markup mode, press Alt, R, T, D. To return the focus to where you left off in the body text, press Alt+F12.Ĭomment insertion points are highlighted in the document’s body text and announced by your screen reader when you use All Markup mode. Type your comment, and press Ctrl+Enter to save it as a new comment thread. You hear: 'New comment, button.' Then press Enter. To do so, press Alt, Z, C to open the pane. Tip: You can also add a comment from the Comments pane. The focus moves to a new comment text box by the side of the page (called the side track). To add the new comment, press Ctrl+Alt+M. To select the words in the body text to be highlighted as commented text, hold Ctrl+Shift and press the Right arrow key (to select words after the current cursor location) or Left arrow key (to select words before the current cursor location). For more information, refer to Read a document. Navigate to the location in the body text where you want to insert your comment. You can add a comment in a Word document, for example, when you are reviewing someone else’s work, if you want to write a note in your own document, or if you’d like to track issues for follow-up. To learn more about screen readers, go to How screen readers work with Microsoft Office. To learn how you can get new features faster, join the Office Insider program. New Microsoft 365 features are released gradually to Microsoft 365 subscribers, so your app might not have these features yet.

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