---
title: "DOCX Comments Extractor"
description: "Drop a reviewed Word document and get every comment as a table: author, date, the text it points at, and the reply it belongs to. Exports CSV or Markdown, in your browser."
url: https://findutils.com/convert/docx-comments-extractor/
category: convert
---

# DOCX Comments Extractor

Drop a reviewed Word document and get every comment as a table: author, date, the text it points at, and the reply it belongs to. Exports CSV or Markdown, in your browser.

**Use this tool:** [DOCX Comments Extractor](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-comments-extractor/)

## Programmatic access

- Browser-only: this tool works on a file, the DOM, or a browser API and has no REST or MCP id.

## Why pull comments out of a Word document?

A document comes back from review with thirty comments in the margin, and the next step is never "read them in Word". It is a list: what was raised, by whom, against which sentence, and which ones are already answered. Getting that list today means opening the Review pane and copying comments one at a time into a spreadsheet, which is slow enough that people skip it and work straight from the margin instead. The comments are already structured data inside the file — this page reads them and hands back the table.

## Frequently asked questions

### Is my document uploaded?

No. The .docx is opened in your browser and the parts inside it are read there. Nothing is sent to a server and nothing is stored.

### Does it change my document?

No. The file is read only. No comment is removed, resolved or edited, and no new file is written back — the only download is the comment table.

### Does it extract tracked changes too?

No. Comments only. Insertions, deletions and formatting revisions are a separate feature of Word stored elsewhere in the document, and this tool does not read them.

### What if the document has no comments?

You get a plain message saying so. That is not an error — a document with nothing in the Review pane is simply a document with no comments part inside it.

### How are replies detected?

Word records the thread shape against the identity of each comment's last paragraph rather than against the comment number. The tool follows that link, so a reply is matched to the comment it actually answers.

### Why is every comment showing as unresolved?

The resolved flag lives in a part that Word 2013 and later write. If the document came from an older version, or from another editor that does not write it, there is no resolved information in the file to report.

### What is the anchored text column?

The passage in the document that the comment points at, taken from the range markers Word puts around it. It is what makes the exported table readable without opening the document alongside it.

### Will the CSV open cleanly in Excel?

Yes. It is plain RFC 4180 — a header row then the data, with commas, quotes and line breaks inside a comment quoted properly. There is no banner or comment line above the header to trip up the import.

### Can it read an older .doc file?

No. A .doc is a binary format rather than a zip, and it is rejected with a message rather than a broken result. Save it as .docx in Word first.

## Related Tools

- [DOCX Metadata Remover](https://findutils.com/security/docx-metadata-remover/)
- [DOCX to Markdown](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-markdown/)
- [DOCX to HTML](https://findutils.com/convert/docx-to-html/)
- [CSV Viewer](https://findutils.com/convert/csv-viewer/)
- [Diff Checker](https://findutils.com/text/diff-checker/)
- [Markdown to HTML](https://findutils.com/convert/markdown-to-html/)