Thank you for your answer.
I look forward to a reply from Stefan Blom

If you are using the "classic" comment interface, you can collapse the comments so that they look like small callouts. Just select the "Simple Markup" view on the Review tab. Doing this will also create a simplified view of tracked changes. The Changed Lines in the margin will show up but nothing else (if the document contains tracked changes).

You can disable modern comments by clearing the option "Enable modern comments" at File > Options > General and then restarting Word.

Note that if you are using the modern comments interface, as far as I know, there is no way to hide comments (besides creating a version of the document in which you delete all comments of course).

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Stefan Blom
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Microsoft 365 apps for business
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Thank you, Stefan. That was such an easy fix. This has been bothering me for months. I have no idea why I didn't come here sooner. Thanks again

I am glad I could help.

Since Microsoft has claimed that modern comments will be the only option some time in the future, resorting to classic comments will stop working sooner or later, unfortunately. :-(

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP

Microsoft 365 apps for business
Windows 11 Professional