OneDrive (previously known as SkyDrive) is a great way to
share your presentations online while you are still working on the slides. When you are collaborating on a presentation with
someone else, you want to give and receive feedback without actually editing the slides themselves. To do that, you can use
the Comments option that works differently in the OneDrive version of PowerPoint compared to the desktop
versions. We have already explored how to
Add, Edit, or Delete Comments in PowerPoint 2013. In this tutorial we'll learn how to use commenting via OneDrive. Also it is assumed that the
person you are collaborating with is using the same PowerPoint Web App on OneDrive.
Note: A Comment is a note that can be attached to any slide object or to a whole slide - you can edit
comments and even receive replies for comments.
Follow these steps to learn commenting via OneDrive collaboration:
- Open the PPTX or any other PowerPoint
file
you want to add comment to on OneDrive. Then access the Insert tab of the
Ribbon (highlighted in red
within Figure 1) and click the
Comment button (highlighted in blue within Figure 1).
Figure 1: Presentation opened within the PowerPoint Online
- This opens the Comments
Task Pane (highlighted in
red within Figure 2).
Figure 2: Comments Task Pane
- Now, within the Comments Task Pane, just type in your comment within the box, as shown highlighted
in
red within Figure 3. Once done, press Enter or click outside
the comment box.
Figure 3: Type in the comments
- This adds a comment icon on the slide (highlighted in red
within Figure 4). Optionally you can easily change the placement of the comment icon by just dragging the icon.
Figure 4: Comment added
- Once the comment is added you can wait for the concerned person to reply back to the comment. In
Figure 5 below, you can see the comment is replied (highlighted in blue)
with the task done. Also notice the Comments icon (highlighted in red within
Figure 5) shows one more icon behind the comment icon representing that the comment was a reply.
Figure 5: Comment replied
- You can continue replying to the original comment and also add new comments, delete comments, etc. within the
Comments Task Pane:
Figure 6: Buttons to add and delete comments
To add a new comment, click the New button (highlighted in red within
Figure 6, above). This adds a new comment box, as shown highlighted in red
within Figure 7. Type in the comment you want.
Figure 7: New comment box added
To delete a comment, place your cursor over the comment you want to delete. This brings up the Delete
button towards its right, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 6,
that you saw earlier on this page. Or, select the Comment icon and just click this Delete button to delete the
selected comment.
Note: Can't see the
Comment icon on the slide? Select the
View tab of
the
Ribbon and click the lower half of the
Show Comments button. From the resultant
drop-down menu, select the
Show Markup option (highlighted in
red within
Figure 8). This is a toggle option to hide/show the
Comments icon. To hide/show the
Comments Task Pane, click the upper half of the
Show Comments button or select/deselect
the
Comments Pane option (highlighted in
blue within
Figure 8).
Also note that when both the
Comments icon and the
Comments Task Pane are visible - then
if you click the
Show Markup option, both the
Comments icon and the
Comments Task Pane will disappear. Thereafter, clicking the same
Show Markup option again
will bring back only the
Comments icon.
Figure 8: Show Comments button
- Make sure to save your presentation so that all comments are saved.
See Also:
Add, Edit, or Delete Comments
in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows
Add, Edit, or Delete Comments in PowerPoint
2011 for Mac
Add, Edit, or Delete Comments
in PowerPoint 2010 for Windows
