Hi Iammuffinman,

Via the Tracking panel on the Review tab of the Ribbon, you can change the 'Final showing markup' to just 'Final'. This will hide the comments. To change the comment shading, you can use the 'Comments' dropdown on the 'Track Changes Options' dialogue box to alter the comment colouring.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I tried your suggestion:

To change the comment shading, you can use the 'Comments' dropdown on the 'Track Changes Options' dialogue box to alter the comment colouring.

However, I need for the selected text to be just without any color. I prefer to just have the brackets around it. This is how it was in Word 2003.