Adobe Reader 8

View comments

The Comments list displays all the comments in a PDF, and it provides a toolbar with common options, such as sorting, filtering, deleting, and replying to comments.

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The Comments button in the navigation pane opens the Comments list.

Open the Comments list

  1. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Comments button  in the navigation pane.

    • Click the Review & Comment button in the Task toolbar and choose Show Comments List.

  2. Using the options at the top of the Comments list, do any of the following:
    • Expand or collapse the comments. Click Expand All or Collapse All in the Comments List toolbar. To expand or collapse individual comments, click the plus and minus signs next to the comment.

    • Browse through the comments. Click a comment in the list, or click the Next button  or the Previous button  to go to the next or previous comment. (These buttons are unavailable if no comment is selected.) The page on which the selected comment is located appears in the document pane, and the selected comment scrolls into view. To go to the page where another comment is located, simply click the comment in the list. 

Sort comments

You can sort comments in the Comments list by author, page, type, date, color, checked state, or status by person. In a thread of replies, only the first message is sorted, and the reply messages are sorted in the same category as the first message in the thread.

  1. Click the Comments button in the navigation pane.
  2. Choose an option from the Sort By menu  in the Comments list.

Show or hide comments

You can hide or show comments based on type, reviewer (author), status, or checked state. Hiding comments is also called filtering. Filtering affects the appearance of comments in both the document window and the Comments list. When you print or summarize comments, you can specify whether hidden comments are printed or summarized. When you hide a note comment that has been replied to, all other replies in the thread are hidden as well.

Note: In an email-based review, hidden comments aren’t included when you send the comments to the initiator.
 From the Show menu  in the Comments list, do one of the following:
  • To show all comments, choose Show All Comments.

  • To hide all comments, choose Hide All Comments.

  • To filter comments, choose the categories that you want to appear. For example, if you want only note comments that you haven’t checked to appear, choose Show By Type > Notes so that only the note comments appear, and then choose Show By Checked State > Unchecked so that only unchecked note comments appear.

  • To reverse a filter, choose the All command for hidden categories. For example, if you filtered comments so that only those by a certain reviewer appear, choose Show > Show By Reviewer > All Reviewers.