Paper 101: Comment like a pro (2024)

With Dropbox Paper, you can grow bigger, brighter ideas. And when you want those ideas to truly blossom, sharing your Paper docs is the way to go. Input from co-workers can help turn solo flights into team efforts, and the commenting features in Paper make getting and acting on feedback easy. Want to master the ins and outs of commenting in Paper? Here are 12 ways.

1. Select some text, then click the word bubble to add a comment.

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2. Hover in the right margin, and click a word bubble to comment on an entire paragraph.

3. @mention anyone—inside or outside your team—to add them to the doc.

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4. Click the smiley face in the comment field to reply with a sticker.

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5. Hover over the comment’s time stamp to see exactly when it was posted.

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6. Hover over a comment, and click the icon that pops up to add a reaction.

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7. Toggle a comment box as read/unread with the link in the upper-left.

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8. Click Edit under any of your comments to make changes.

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9. Or click Delete to get rid of one altogether.

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10. Click Resolve in a comment box to clear a comment out (but keep it in the doc’s history).

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11. Click on a doc’s time stamp, then jump to Comment history tab to see all comments, past and present.

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12. From the comment history, click Unresolve to reopen a thread.

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Want some more tips on how to use Paper? Head over to our Help Center.

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How do I comment on a PDF in Dropbox? ›

Open the file you want to comment on. You'll see a pop-up message that says Select an area to comment on. Drag to highlight the desired area. Click the text box that says Write a comment, type your comment, and click Post.

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Adding a good comment

Aim at adding feedback that is detailed, focused, relevant to the research item, and useful to the people reading it. A useful comment is one that either asks a specific question or provides feedback on the content, method, results, or anything else specific to someone's research.

How do you start writing comments? ›

Use the introduction to get the reader's attention and interest in the topic. Define the problem you are going to discuss and provide a short overview on what you think and why. Summarize the most important arguments that best support your opinion.

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Comments are generally formatted as either block comments (also called prologue comments or stream comments) or line comments (also called inline comments). Block comments delimit a region of source code which may span multiple lines or a part of a single line.

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