Insert, delete, remove comments from Word documents DOC/DOCX

CommentsExisting.java

// Load source word document
Document doc = new Document(dataDir + "Comments.docx");

// Initialize DocumentBuilder object
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// Create new comment
Comment comment = new Comment(doc, "Aspose", "Initials", new java.util.Date());
builder.getCurrentParagraph().appendChild(comment);
comment.getParagraphs().add(new com.aspose.words.Paragraph(doc));
comment.getFirstParagraph().getRuns().add(new com.aspose.words.Run(doc, "Sample Comment"));

// Save output file
doc.save(dataDir + "Comments_Output.docx");

CommentsNew.java

// Initialize new word document
Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);

// Add some text
builder.write("Some text is added.");

// Create new comment
Comment comment = new Comment(doc, "Aspose", "Initials", new java.util.Date());
builder.getCurrentParagraph().appendChild(comment);
comment.getParagraphs().add(new com.aspose.words.Paragraph(doc));
comment.getFirstParagraph().getRuns().add(new com.aspose.words.Run(doc, "Sample Comment"));

// Save output DOCX file
doc.save(dataDir + "Comments_Output.docx");

DeleteAllComments.java

// Open the document.
Document doc = new Document(dataDir + "Comments.docx");
// Collect all comments in the document
NodeCollection comments = doc.getChildNodes(com.aspose.words.NodeType.COMMENT, true);
// Remove all comments.
comments.clear();
doc.save(dataDir + "output.docx");

DeleteSpecificComment.java

// Open the document.
Document doc = new Document(dataDir + "Comments.docx");
String authorName = "Aspose";
// Collect all comments in the document
NodeCollection comments = doc.getChildNodes(NodeType.COMMENT, true);
// Look through all comments and remove those written by the Aspose author.
for (int i = comments.getCount() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    Comment comment = (Comment) comments.get(i);
    if (comment.getAuthor().equals(authorName))
        comment.remove();
}
// Save output DOCX file
doc.save(dataDir + "output.docx");