Modern notes -- how to keep tracked changes but get rid of modern notes?

Sorry, that is impractical. I am going through the tracked changes and accepting or rejecting them one by one, so it is critical I be able to view multiple tracked changes at once. Sadly, the stickies obscure many of them. Is there any way to drag the stickies off the text? (What were they thinking?)

Just to be clear, you won't lose the tracked changes if you delete the comments.

Of course, if you are saying that you need the comments to be used in conjunction with the tracked changes (for example, because you include additional info regarding the tracked changes by adding comments), then creating a copy of the document may not be very helpful.

Could you elaborate a bit on what you are trying to accomplish, specifically?

There is no way to change how comments display since you have a version of Word that doesn't let you revert back to classic comments.

Yes, huge difference between "comments" and "tracked changes." I need to view both simultaneously. These must be called something else. It's a sticky that gets in the way and says "Accept or reject suggestion?" and then shows the tracked change. Help!

The intrusive pop-ups that request accepting or deleting are called track changes cards. As far as I know, these can't be turned off, but they will disappear if you move the insertion point out of the tracked change.

I am in tears! It's a 120,000-word document and having to stop and turn off these stickies one by one is going to take a year and I am not kidding. Each one of them has to be clicked before it will disappear. This is sheer agony. Why would they do this? Obscur text? Is there any workaround at all to get rid of them? Please tell me yes. I am distraught.

My colleague, Stefan, must have missed this one: Go to Word> Preferences> View then clear the check on Comments on Rollover.

In my experience the comment popup never covers the commented text, it always appears above it. But if you don't actually want to disable the feature there is no need to click, just press the esc key or move the pointer a bit so it doesn't hover on the commented content.

Thanks, Bob. I definitely misunderstood something here. :-) The option you mention sounds like it should be connected to comments rather than to the track changes cards that pop up when you move the insertion point into a tracked change.

The problem is that there never has been a Comment dialog, so even the devlopers probably don't know it's there. As you know, there are numerous incongruities in the Preferences & much omitted from the Ribbon UI. The most unfortunate aspect is that new users have no awareness of the Menu Bar content or the power hidden within Preferences – their eyes are drawn to & hands are tied by the convenience of the Ribbon so they look no further.

Sorry to confuse you. I am talking about "track changes cards."

Finally got Microsoft to give me a link to download the version of MikeWord that doesn't have track changes cards. At first she wanted to do trial and error, but I finally got her to just look at the features list under the build. As you go through your day today, get coffee, have lunch, get ready to leave work, think to yourself why would Microsoft make this soooooooo hard?