You can add comments to text, objects, charts, and table cells. When you don’t want comments to be visible, you can hide them. Comments are indicated with a square marker in the left margin of the document (text is also highlighted), next to an object, and by a triangle in the corner of a table cell.
When multiple people are working on a document, each person’s comments appear in a unique color and include their author name. Anyone can reply to a comment, which is especially useful if you’re collaborating—you can add a comment, then with back-and-forth replies have a conversation in real time.
With Pages on a Mac, you can also use the review toolbar or Comments & Changes sidebar to review and edit the comments.
Note: Comments and highlights aren’t visible in printed documents.
You can edit and delete your own comments and replies. If you’re the owner of the document, you can delete anyone’s comments, replies, or conversations.
Select text, or click a table cell or an object you want to add a comment to, then do one of the following:
In the toolbar, click 
.
In the review toolbar at the top of the document, click 
. The review toolbar is visible if there are comments or tracked changes in the document.
Type your comment, then click Done (or click outside the comment).
To view, edit, or delete your comment, do one of the following:
Open a comment: Click the comment marker (or move the pointer over the highlighted text).
Edit a comment: If you’re the comment’s author, open the comment, click in the text, then type.
If there are replies to your comment, you can’t edit the original comment by clicking its text. Instead, move the pointer over the timestamp to the right of your name at the top of the comment. When the down arrow appears, click it, choose Edit Comment, then make your changes.
Delete a comment: If you’re the comment’s author or the document owner, click Delete at the bottom of the comment. If there are replies to the comment, this deletes the entire conversation.
You can also add, edit, and delete comments in the Comments & Changes sidebar. To open it, click 
in the toolbar, then choose Show Comments Pane (or Show Comments & Changes Pane).
Choose Pages > Preferences (from the Pages menu at the top of your screen).
Click General.
Click the Text Size pop-up menu, then choose a size.
The setting applies to all of your Pages documents. You can change the setting at any time.
Click the comment marker (or move the pointer over the highlighted text).
Do any of the following:
Review a comment or conversation: Scroll through the text. If a comment is truncated, click Show More. If replies are hidden, click “View [ n] more replies.”
You can also review comments in the Comments & Changes sidebar. To open it, click in the toolbar, then choose Show Comments Pane (or Show Comments & Changes Pane).
Go to the next or previous comment (or highlight): Click the arrows at the bottom of a comment.
Anyone you share the document with—by sending them a copy or inviting others to collaborate (with editing privileges)—can reply to a comment.
Click the comment marker (or move the pointer over the highlighted text).
Do any of the following:
Add a reply: Click Reply at the bottom of the comment, type your reply, then click Done. You can reply as many times as you like.
Edit your reply: Move the pointer over the timestamp (to the right of your name) for the reply you want to edit. When the down arrow appears, click it, then choose Edit Reply. Make your changes then click Done.
Delete your reply: If you’re the reply author or the document owner, move the pointer over the timestamp to the right of the name. When the down arrow appears, click it, then choose Delete Reply.
You can also reply to comments and edit your replies in the Comments & Changes sidebar on the left. To open it, click in the toolbar, then choose Show Comments Pane (or Show Comments & Changes Pane).
If you’re the owner of the document or author of the original comment in a conversation (a comment with one or more replies), you can delete the entire conversation.
Click the comment marker (or move the pointer over the highlighted text), then click Delete at the bottom of the conversation.
You can show or hide comments in the document and in the Comments sidebar if it’s showing.
Do any of the following:
Click in the toolbar, then choose Show Comments or Hide Comments.
Choose View > Comments & Changes > Show Comments or Hide Comments (from the View menu at the top of your screen).
At the top of the Comments sidebar on the left side of the Pages window, click View Options, then choose Show Comments or Hide Comments.
If change tracking is on and you hide comments, the review toolbar still shows, but comments aren’t included in the navigation.
You can edit and review comments in the Comments sidebar on the left side of the Pages window. If you’re tracking changes in the document, those changes also appear there.
To open the Comments sidebar, click in the toolbar, then choose Show Comments Pane (or Show Comments & Changes Pane).
If change tracking is on, you can also click 
on the left side of the review toolbar. Click it again to close the sidebar.
To change what’s shown in the sidebar, click View Options at the top of the sidebar to sort by page or date, filter comments by author, and hide comments or hide changes.
If you choose Sort by Document from the View Options menu, the sidebar scrolls as you scroll the document.
If you filter comments by author so that your comments aren’t visible in the sidebar, then you add a comment, the filter switches back to Show All.