How to Remove Comments in Word

1. Start Microsoft Word 2007 and open a document from your files that contains comments that you would like to remove.
2. Select the 'Home' tab, if necessary, at the top of the Word screen to display the Home ribbon. Locate the 'Editing' section of the Home ribbon.
3. Click the 'Replace' button from the 'Editing' section of the Home ribbon. The 'Find and Replace' dialog box will open onto the screen.
4. Type '^a' (without the quotation marks) into the 'Find what' text box.
5. Verify that the 'Replace with' text box is completely empty. The comments will not be removed if there is something in this text box.
6. Choose the 'Replace' button to locate the first instance of a comment and replace it with a blank space. You can also choose the 'Replace All' button to quickly find all comments and replace them with blank spaces in just one simple click. The 'Find and Replace' dialog box will close on its own when it is finished finding and replacing the comments.
7. Click 'OK' in the dialog box that appears. This dialog box confirms that it has found and replaced all instances of comments within the document.