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Hello! This isn't so much a question as it is an observation. The most recent update to PowerPoint changes the comments feature. Now, if you attach a comment to text that's inside a shape, the comment box sits in the upper right corner of the shape. In the old version, comments could be located next to specific lines of text.
So if I have a box with bulleted text in it, I can't tell which comments apply to which bullets.
I don't think there's a workaround for this - I just wanted to alert Microsoft about the usability issue. Comments were better the way they were!
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>>Now, if you attach a comment to text that's inside a shape, the comment box sits in the upper right corner of the shape.
I just tried this here and, oddly, don't see what you're describing. I see a comment "flag" in the thumbnail view next to the slide's thumbnail; in the "flag" it indicates how many comments there are on that slide.
If I apply a comment to the shape that contains the text, as opposed to the text within the shape ... you can do either ... I get the flag in the upper right that you describe.
Does that match up with what you're seeing?
>> So if I have a box with bulleted text in it, I can't tell which comments apply to which bullets.
If you choose Show Comments on the Review tab, the comments appear in the pane on the right, and any text you've applied comments to is highlighted on the slide. Or if the comment's been applied to a shape, the shape itself is highlighted.
Does that help?