How to: Add Comments to Text in Documents

Applies to
The information in this topic applies only to the specified Visual Studio Tools for Office projects and versions of Microsoft Office. Project type Document-level projects Application-level projects Microsoft Office version Word 2003 Word 2007 For more information, see Features Available by Application and Project Type.

The Comments property of the Document class adds a comment to a range of text in a Microsoft Office Word document.

The following example adds a comment to the first paragraph in the document.

To add a new comment to text in a document-level customization

• Call the Add(Range, Object) method of the Comments property and supply a range and the comment text. To use the following code example, run it from the ThisDocument class in your project.

  Me.Comments.Add(Me.Paragraphs(1).Range, "Add a comment to the first paragraph.")
  

  object text = "Add a comment to the first paragraph.";
  this.Comments.Add(this.Paragraphs[1].Range, ref text);
  

To add a new comment to text in an application-level add-in

• Call the Add(Range, Object) method of the Comments property and supply a range and the comment text.

  The following code example adds a comment to the active document. To use this example, run it from the ThisAddIn class in your project.

  Me.Application.ActiveDocument.Comments.Add( _
      Me.Application.ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Range, _
      "Add a comment to the first paragraph.")
  

  object text = "Add a comment to the first paragraph.";
  this.Application.ActiveDocument.Comments.Add(
      this.Application.ActiveDocument.Paragraphs[1].Range, ref text);
  

See Also

Tasks

How to: Remove All Comments from Documents

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