How to: Programmatically remove all comments from documents

Applies to: Visual Studio Visual Studio for Mac

Use the DeleteAllComments method to remove all comments from a Microsoft Office Word document.

Applies to: The information in this topic applies to document-level projects and VSTO Add-in projects for Word. For more information, see Features available by Office application and project type.

1. Call the DeleteAllComments method of the ThisDocument class in your project. To use this code example, run it from the ThisDocument class.

   this.DeleteAllComments();
   

1. Call the DeleteAllComments method of the Document from which you want to remove comments.

   The following code example removes all comments from the active document. To use this code example, run it from the ThisAddIn class in your project.

   this.Application.ActiveDocument.DeleteAllComments();
   

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