The comments are now almost impossible to differentiate from revisions. Please bring back the shading for comment boxes so you can find comments faster. As a professional editor, I find all the track changes modifications in Word 2013 and beyond make my job much, much harder. I don't need photographs of people next to comments; I need comment numbers and different formatting to easily distinguish comments from other revisions.

I also need to have comments in deleted text showing in the markup area instead of having to hunt them down through a weird "chase the pop-up box" process. If you're going to insist on using pop-ups to display comments from deleted text, then at least give us the ability to dock the comment display and to double-click on the comment to take us to the deleted text.

(This goes not just for Word, but for all apps in the Office 2016 for Mac suite.)

I usually have multiple documents open that I work on simultaneously. If I quit Word, I want all of those documents to re-open the next time I use Word. Otherwise I have to re-open each of them individually.

If I hold the Option key while clicking on the Word dropdown at the top-left of the screen, the "Quit Word" selection is changed to "Quit and Keep Windows." But when I quit Word in this fashion, the windows I had open do NOT re-open next time I load up Word.

Every app I own except for the Office 2016 apps honors the "Keep Windows" option in macOS (I'm running Sierra version 10.12.5). Please fix this!

I'm having a tremendous struggle to create a workable custom ribbon. First, I purchased an Office 365 subscription *specifically* to gain this functionality (because ribbon customization is not available at all in the standalone version of Word 2016). Now the option to customize the ribbon has been added (thank you!!), but there is a lot of remaining trouble with poor implementation. I hope that the team is still working hard to improve this feature. Being able to create a customized ribbon is an *essential* productivity feature for those of us who use Word on an everyday basis.

I've run into a variety of problems while attempting to create a ribbon on Mac, including giant-sized command icons that eat up all the available space, and subgroups that simply do not appear on the ribbon after having been added to it.

I've come to suspect that the basis of a lot of these problems is the presence of the written labels below the icons. I'm referring to the labels such as "Align Left," "Text Highlight Color," etc. that show up below the icons. I think that the presence of these labels may be affecting the ability of the icons to re-size and stack vertically, as well as the ability of some default sub-groups to appear at all (for example, when adding the Review / Changes subgroup to a custom ribbon tab; this and several other subgroups simply do not appear at all).

Various support articles seem to indicate that the Command Labels can be turned off with a simple right-click selection. However, this is not available in the Mac version of Word. Right-clicking on the ribbon or on the sub-group in the customization screen does nothing. As far as I can tell, there is no way to turn off the labels.

I think that fixing this, adding a simple option to turn off the command labels, would do quite a lot of help solve various ribbon customization problems.

There is a serious problem in the current version of Word with comments becoming lost among the various tracked changes. This was not much of a problem in Word for Mac 2011 due to the colored background of the comments. The colors made comments stand out and differentiated them from the tracked changes.

Really the only way to handle comments now is to turn off the visibility of tracked changes. This is a problem, both because it requires a learning curve for clients and (more importantly) because often the purpose of the comments is to explain a change. So one has to hide "insertions and deletions," find the comments and read them, turn "insertions and deletions" back on to figure out what the comment is talking about, etc. It's really a pain.

All this could be fixed by simply allowing comment shading as was present in earlier versions of Word.

I've even tried to duplicate this manually by modifying the styles for "Comment Text" and Balloon Text" and adding text shading, but for some reason this doesn't seem to work either.

Please help make our comments more visible!

Hi - I've had this problem for a little while. I'll have several documents open in Word at once to which I need to refer while I'm writing an article. I'll leave Word in order to search for something else I need eg an online reference or news item, a spreadsheet figure, or to read a document open in Adobe. When I tab back to Word, it will always return me to a different article ie not the one I've been working on for hours, days, even weeks. I then have to pull down the Windows screen, and scroll my way to the document I'm working on. I reckon this is liable to add hours to composing time!

If you copy and paste HTML into a word doc that uses a font that you don't have on the Mac, it doesn't complain, it just uses a default font. Then if you select that font, manually enter the size 15, and then select an existing font, it pops up a dialog asking if you want to change to the non-existing font when you're trying to change to the existing font. Note also that it's not atypical to change the font size before the font type, because the mouse cursor is often closer to the size so that's the first thing the user might do, so this should be regularly tested for other font size then type changes also, not just for non-existing to existing font changes.

When drafting legal documents I think it would be helpful to allow the user to add shortcuts to the touch bar to accomplish things like inserting special symbols and characters. I was able to customize a keyboard shortcut the old school way, but this new feature allows users to make a part of the keyboard their own if developers make it possible. Though I applaud Microsoft's limited inclusion of the touch bar's feature they should be greatly expanded upon. The user should be able to fully customize the touch bar with features normally found on the banners. As a short term solution it would just be nice to insert symbols with a button that expands on the home touch bar for Word the way the emoji symbols function on the keyboards in other Apple Apps such as messenger.