Add comments and reply to comments

Add comments and reply to comments in Microsoft Word — with the four heights of help laid out: do it now, make it easier for the next person to accept, work out the right move when you are stuck, and learn the pattern so it stops coming back.

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The four heights

The same task, four distances: today's deadline, the next reviewer, the stuck moment, the pattern.

Execute — do the immediate task

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I need comments and replies organized before the internal review tomorrow. Add comments where…
I need comments and replies organized before the internal review tomorrow. Add comments where clauses are ambiguous, ask one-line questions for the drafter where intent is unclear, and reply to existing comments that have been addressed. Produce a summary of unresolved comments and the names responsible for final decisions.

Improve — make it easier to accept

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Before I circulate this to the client, make the comment thread easy to act on: convert long comment…
Before I circulate this to the client, make the comment thread easy to act on: convert long comment chains into a single summarized comment with the proposed change, tag the decision owner by name, and sort comments into must-fix, consider, and optional. Flag any comment that will change pricing or delivery dates.

Decide — diagnose the stuck moment

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A partner wrote 'fix it' in reply to a comment about scope but gave no guidance. The drafter looks…

A senior partner replied to a comment with 'fix it' but didn't say how.

A partner wrote 'fix it' in reply to a comment about scope but gave no guidance. The drafter looks to me to interpret. I'm worried about making a substantive change without partner sign-off but leaving it vague delays the client. What's the safest narrow interpretation to apply now, and how should I record the change so the partner can reverse it easily if they meant something else?

Become — change the pattern

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I keep losing time because comment threads extend over weeks and the decision trail vanishes,…

Comment threads grow long and decisions get forgotten.

I keep losing time because comment threads extend over weeks and the decision trail vanishes, causing rework. Propose a lightweight habit that forces closure: how to label comments, assign owners, set response deadlines, and what to archive once a matter is resolved so future documents don't reopen the same debate.

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Other word processor work people do in Microsoft Word.

Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
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