Add a Note or Suggested edit
Select the words you want to comment on and choose Review. Use a Note for a question or comment. Use Suggested edit when you want to propose replacement wording or remove the selected text.
The item appears under Writing Tools › Review and stays connected to the selected passage.
- Select the text the feedback refers to.
- Choose Review.
- Choose Note or Suggested edit.
- Write the comment or replacement text and save it.
Work through open feedback
Selecting a Review item takes you back to its text. Accept a Suggested edit to apply it, or reject it to keep the current wording. Resolve a Note when the question or task is finished.
Finished items remain available in Review history, so a decision does not have to erase the record.
Work through the open list in whatever order makes sense for the draft. You can jump between items without accepting a change simply because you opened it.
Suggested edits are written by people
Compose does not generate the replacement text in a Suggested edit. The person creating the item writes the proposed wording, and the writer decides whether to use it.
A deletion is also an explicit suggestion. It is not a separate automated editing mode.
When the draft has changed underneath a suggestion
Compose will not silently replace newer writing with an older suggestion. If the original selected text no longer matches, Review shows a conflict and asks you what to do.
If the selected passage has disappeared, the Review item is kept rather than discarded. This preserves the feedback even when its original anchor can no longer be found.
Free-plan limit
Free documents can have up to five unresolved Notes or Suggested edits at one time. Resolving or deleting an item frees a slot for another.
Pro and Teams remove the open-Review creation limit. Existing Review history remains part of the document.
What happens when you export
Review highlights and Review history are editing information, so clean exports do not include them. The .compose file keeps the Review data.
DOCX export does not convert Compose Review into Microsoft Word comments or Track Changes. Keep the .compose file when editable Review history matters.
If another person needs the Review discussion itself, share the .compose file using a method you trust. A clean export is not meant to carry that history.