July 31, 2026

## [Comments, and Word fidelity goes deep](https://revise.io/updates/comments-word-fidelity)

## Comments

![Talk with Revise agent in margin comments](https://revise.io/updates/comments-light.png)

Revise now has real comments. Select any text and add a comment from the toolbar or the right-click menu — it anchors to that exact passage and appears in the margin alongside the page. Comments support full threads: reply to keep a discussion going, and resolve a thread when it's settled. Anchors stay attached as the document is edited around them.

Comments survive the round-trip through .docx — threads, replies, and resolved state all arrive intact in Word, and Word comments arrive intact in Revise.

Comments are also a way to work with the AI agent: ask for a change right from a comment thread, and the agent's suggested edits come back attached to that thread for you to accept or reject. In private documents, Revise will reply automatically to your comments if it seems appropriate. In collaborative documents, you can tag @Revise.

One very nice use case for this is you can import a .docx file that is annotated with comments and simply ask the Revise Agent to address them all!

## Word fidelity: the deep cuts

We spent the last stretch closing out the .docx features that professional documents — contracts, briefs, manuscripts — actually use. All of these now import, render, and export faithfully:

- Watermarks — DRAFT, CONFIDENTIAL, or your own text, with a new dialog on the Layout tab.
- Line numbers in the margin (pleading-paper style), with restart and counting options in the Page Layout dialog.
- Tab stops — left, center, right, and decimal alignment, including dot leaders for signature lines and simple tables of figures.
- A live table of contents that tracks your headings, with real page numbers on export — in .docx and PDF.
- Word-style clause numbering ("Section 1.", "1.01", "(i)") and cross-reference fields that keep pointing at the right clause.
- Paragraph borders and shading, hidden text, and per-section headers & footers — including different headers for a landscape annex.
- Word's pagination controls: keep-with-next, keep-lines-together, widow/orphan control (in the paragraph right-click menu), and automatic hyphenation. Page breaks land where Word would put them.
- Theme fonts — documents that carry their fonts through Word's theme now show the right typefaces instead of falling back to a default.

PDF export got the same treatment: watermarks, line numbers, tab leaders, borders and shading, footnotes, and multi-section layouts all render in your PDFs exactly as they do on screen.

Under the hood, every one of these features is verified by a new round-trip test suite that pushes generated torture-test documents through import and export and checks that nothing — text, formatting, or structure — gets lost or moved. Word compatibility isn't a checkbox for us; it's a contract.

[Read the Word compatibility guide →](https://revise.io/help/docx-compatibility)

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