You can attach comments to any type of object, including paint objects, vector objects, and text objects. When you open a document, you can view all comments attached to objects. You can edit comments that you create, but you can’t change comments made by others. When you select an object that has one or more comments attached to it, the object displays yellow selection handles (Windows) or gray selection handles (Mac). You can view comments by pointing to objects. When the pointer is on an object, the object’s comments appear in a pop-up window. If comments do not appear when you point to commented objects, be sure that “Show information tooltips” is selected on the General tab in the Preferences dialog box. To attach comments 1 To attach a comment to an object, select the object. 2 Choose Object > Options > Comments to display the Comments palette. In the Comments palette, click New. 3 In the New Comment dialog box, type the comment text. When you finish, click OK to attach the comment to the selected object. The comment appears in the Comments palette. You can click New in the Comments palette to attach additional com- ments to the selected object. A comment can contain up to 64 kilobytes of text (about 65,500 char- acters). The text appears in a fixed size and typeface. When you create comments, you can select, copy, cut, and paste text using the standard keyboard shortcuts. Spell checking, text format- ting, and text colors can not be applied to the text of comments. J. Doe [JD] Check  overprint  setting  on this object. Comments example
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