The new commenting
experience is available only in subscription versions of Microsoft PowerPoint.
PowerPoint 2016 users will be able to work with these comments by using
PowerPoint on the Web. This update adds a business bar notification to let
users know that a file contains comments that they can't access in PowerPoint
2016. We recommend that users open the file in PowerPoint on the Web to work
with these comments.
The business bar
works as follows:
- The business bar shows that a file that has modern comments was opened, or that comments were added by co-authors while the user has the file open.
- The business bar gives users options to save the file as a cloud file if it isn't already,
and to open the file in a browser to get the new commenting experience.
Additionally, the
Document Inspector is updated as follows:
- If users opt to
delete comments while they are running Document Inspector, all comments are deleted as expected.
- If users opt to anonymize a document that has modern comments, they are informed that they
can't anonymize the comments but can use the Document Inspector to remove
the comments from the document.
Note To enable this improvement, you must install update 4484216 together
with this update.