The WordMeister

In the initial release of Word 2013 the new Comment extensions, contained in the commentsEx.xml part, are not written to the XML returned to the object model property Range.WordOpenXML.

Changes in the Word Open XML for comment’s functionality in Word 2013 were presented in my last post. This time, we’ll look at how these changes affect working with Comments using the Open XML SDK.

Now that we’ve looked at Comments in the Word 2013 user interface and object model, it’s time to consider how this has been implemented in WordOpenXML and the Open XML SDK.

In my last post I presented some of the new Comment functionality in the Word UI. The new functionality for Comments is also reflected in Word’s object model.

Creating and Editing Comments When you give the command to insert a new Comment in Word 2013 a small pane appears near the current selection. It gives the name of the person entering the Comment and how long ago the Comment was generated. This information travels with the Comment. You just start typing. The Comment pane […]

The Word team has once again invested quite a bit of thought and effort in good old “Track Changes”. A couple of versions back, we got: the Revisions Balloons – the area that appears in the margin where track changes and comments are listed in little boxes with lines back to the text and the […]