Add comments and highlight text in a Pages document

You and people you’re collaborating with on a document can add comments to text, objects, charts, and table cells. Comments are useful for making notes to yourself, asking questions of reviewers, and conveying editorial suggestions.

You can also highlight text without adding a comment. When you don’t want comments and highlights to be visible, you can hide them.

Add, read, or delete comments

Comments are indicated with a square marker next to text or an object, and text is also highlighted. Table cells with a comment have a small triangle in the corner.

Do any of the following:

Add a comment: Select text, an object, or a table cell, then tap in the shortcut bar above the keyboard. Tap Comment, then type your comment. Tap outside the comment to finish.
Read a comment: Tap the highlighted text or comment marker. Tap the right and left arrows in the comment to jump to the next or previous comment or highlight.
Delete a comment: Tap the comment marker, then tap Delete in the comment.

Set the author name for comments

The author name appears in the upper-left corner of comments.

Tap in the toolbar, then tap Settings.
Tap Author Name, then type a name.
Any comments you made previously in the document are changed to show the new name.
Tap Done.

The name you set becomes the default name for comments and edits you make in new Pages documents you create and in new documents shared with you on iCloud. Any existing comments in other documents aren’t updated with the new name; only new comments use the new name.

Show or hide comments

Tap in the toolbar, tap Settings, then turn Comments on or off.

Highlight text

You can highlight text and then add comments to it. You can’t highlight text in a table cell.

Select text, then tap Highlight.
Do any of the following:
- Add a comment to highlighted text: Double-tap the highlighted text, tap Comment, then type your comment.
- Remove a highlight from text: Double-tap the highlighted text, then tap Remove Highlight.
- Remove a comment from highlighted text: Tap the comment marker, then tap Delete in the comment.