Comments

A comment is a note that you or someone else leaves on a page for the people who work on the publication next. A comment is never printed and never goes into a PDF. It is kept in a .jpub file, so you can send the publication to a coworker, and they see your notes and answer them.

Add a comment

1. To put the comment on an object, select the object first. To put it on a spot of the page, click the empty page so that nothing is selected.
2. Click Review > Comments > New Comment, or press Ctrl+Alt+M. You can also right-click and choose New Comment.
3. The first time, JeffPub asks for your name and initials. Comments show who wrote them, and File > Options keeps your name and initials for every JeffOffice app.
4. Type the comment in the box at the top of the Comments pane, and click Post (or press Ctrl+Enter).

The comment gets a small speech bubble on the page, with the writer's initials in it. A comment on an object stands at the object's top right corner and moves with the object. A comment on a spot of the page stands where it was put, and you can drag its bubble to move it. If the object is deleted, the bubble stays where it last was.

Work with the comments

The Comments pane lists the comments on the page you are looking at, each with its writer, the date, and the text.

• Reply adds an answer under a comment. Type in the box and press Enter, or click Reply.
• Edit (the pencil) changes the text of a comment or a reply. Delete (the trash can) takes away a comment with its replies, or one reply.
• Resolve marks a comment as done: its bubble turns gray. Reopen brings it back.
• Click a comment, or its bubble on the page, to open it. The page scrolls to the bubble.

Every change is a step that Undo (Ctrl+Z) takes back, and Redo brings forward again.

Move around and show or hide

• Previous and Next open the comment before or after the open one, and turn to its page.
• Go To (Ctrl+G) can also go to a comment: choose Comment, then type its number, or press Next or Previous.
• Show Comments shows or hides the pane and the bubbles together. A publication that comes with comments opens with them shown.
• The arrow beside Delete also offers Delete All Comments on This Page and Delete All Comments in This Publication.

Printing, PDF, and other files

• Comments are not printed, and they are not in a PDF, a picture, a web page, or an e-book.
• A .jpub file keeps comments, with their replies and whether they are resolved.
• A .pub file can't hold comments, because other programs that open it have no place for them. When you save as .pub, JeffPub tells you that the comments were left out. They stay in your publication, and they are kept when you save as .jpub. Opening a .pub file never adds comments.

Share without names

Comments carry the names of the people who wrote them. Before you share a publication, click File > Info > Inspect Publication. It counts the comments and, with Remove All, takes them out in one step that you can undo.

Related

• Review tab
• Open and save publications
• Work with .pub files