Table of Contents:

• Adding Comments with Annotate for Word Mac Office 2004
• Adding Your Own Custom Comments to a Drop-Down Menu

Annotate for Mac Office 2004 has a number of different ways of adding comments to an open document:

1. From the Annotate menu, located to the right of the File menu
   
2. From the Annotate toolbar, located just above the open document 

Adding Your Own Custom Comments to a Drop-Down Menu

Mac Office 2004 has a powerful feature that few teachers know about called AutoText. You can read more about AutoText in the Microsoft Word documentation, and on many websites like the University of Wisconsin Eau-Claire.

Basically, Autotext makes it easy to copy any existing snippet of text, and add it to a drop-down menu so you can add it to any document later. For teachers, this may be overall comments that are similar from student to student, or additional grammar or content issues not covered by Annotate for Word. Here's how to use the feature:

1. Type some text.
2. Select the text.
3. Select Autotext in the Annotate Toolbar, then New.
4. Name your entry and click OK

Adding an AutoText comment is easy, especially if you'd like the text in a properly formatted Comment bubble:

1. Click the Blank button in the Annotate Toolbar to add an empty Comment bubble
2. Click the Autotext button in the Annotate Toolbar
3. Select All Entries
4. Select the Normal option
5. Choose the title of the AutoText entry you would like to add