Comment in an Office document

Who can comment in a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file in Drime's Office editor, who can change or delete a comment, and how they differ from file comments.

Updated October 21, 2026Web

In the Office editor, people can leave comments in a Word, Excel or PowerPoint file, for example to ask a question about a paragraph or a cell.

#Who can comment

	Add a comment	Change or delete a comment
Person with edit rights	Yes	Their own comments only
Person who can only view, including through a share link	Yes	Their own comments only

Anyone who can open the document can comment, even without edit rights. Only the author of a comment can change or delete it.

Comments are part of the document: they are saved with it, like the rest of your changes. See How Office documents are saved, and their versions.

#Comments in the editor and comments on the file

Drime has two kinds of comments:

comments inside the document, in the Office editor, described here;
comments on the file in your Drive, shown next to the file and not in the document. See Comment on files and mention people.

#If it doesn't work

What you see	What to do
You cannot change someone else's comment	That is expected: only its author can change or delete it. Reply to it instead.
Your comment is missing when you reopen the file	Changes reach Drime once everyone has closed the document. If someone still has it open, wait until they close it.

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#Who can comment

#Comments in the editor and comments on the file

#If it doesn't work

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