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may be a time when you want to print a
hard copy of your presentation and ask a
friend to look it over for you
you could both write your comments in
the margins and even compare it
side-by-side with an earlier draft
wouldn't it be easier if you could do
that electronically in PowerPoint you
can using two features called comments
and compare let's go to the review tab
right away so I can show you what I mean
let's say I'm collaborating on this
presentation with a couple co-workers
and I want to make a suggestion about
this slide without actually changing it
I'll just add a comment instead by
selecting the item I want to reference
and then clicking the new comment
command now you can easily type your
question or comment I really do like
this graphic when you're done click
anywhere outside the box or press ENTER
on your keyboard and the newly added
comment will be represented by this
little icon any time you add or click on
a comment the comments pane will open on
the right this allows you to see all the
comments on your current slide in one
convenient place here we can see that
someone also left a comment for us it's
from the person who wrote the
presentation I'm going to go ahead and
respond just by clicking where it says
reply see how they're sort of stacked
of each other now it's just as easy to
edit your comment if you make a mistake
or think of something you want to add
all you have to do is click it in the
right pane and start typing if you
change your mind and want to delete a
comment like the first one here that's
not a problem just make sure it's
selected then click the delete command
you can also go to the menu below and
delete all the comments on the slide or
all the comments in the presentation I
think I'm getting the hang of this but I
know we have one other person working on
the presentation and he's already saved
his own version with a couple minor
changes we can decide whether to keep or
discard those changes using a neat
feature called compare all you need is
the presentation you have open and then
a copy that's been modified in some way
click merge and PowerPoint combines and
compares the two presentations to come
up with a list of changes that were made
that's over here on the details tab this
is still my copy but now we have some
comments from the other version too and
a place to address the revisions just
click this icon anywhere it appears on
your slide and check the revisions you
want to keep I'm going to go ahead and
accept them all when you're done click
the end review command and take note of
the fact that any unapplied changes will
be discarded now that you know how to
use the comment and compare features you
can review and collaborate on
presentations all without leaving
PowerPoint