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# Comments

> Point at a sentence, a cell, a part of an image or a spot on a website, and send Rally a comment about exactly that.

"The second paragraph is too long" works until there are two second
paragraphs. Comments let you point instead of describe: you pick the exact part
of what Rally made, write what you think, and the comment arrives in the
conversation with that part quoted, so Rally and everyone else know precisely
what you meant.

## Leave a comment

1. Open what Rally made in the panel on the right.
2. Click **Comment mode** in the panel's header (the pointer with a speech
   bubble, just before **Expand**). The button turns blue and the pointer
   changes.
3. Move over the page. Rally outlines the block a click would pick.
4. Click to pick that block, double-click to pick a single word, or drag to
   pick a range.
5. Type your comment in the box that opens beside it and press
   <kbd>Return</kbd> or click **Send**.

The comment stays pinned beside what you picked, and a chip for it appears in
the message box. Pick more parts and comment on each if you like; each one
gets its own chip. Then send the message as usual. You can add words of your
own to the message, or send the comments on their own.

While picking, <kbd>⌥ Option</kbd> or <kbd>↑</kbd> grows the outline to the
list or section around it, and <kbd>↓</kbd> shrinks it again. <kbd>Esc</kbd>
leaves Comment mode and keeps the comments you already confirmed.

To change a comment before you send it, click it to reopen it. The **×** on a
comment or on its chip removes it.

## What you can comment on

| What Rally made | What you can pick |
| --- | --- |
| Documents and text | A word, a passage or a whole block |
| PDFs and Word files | Passages of their text |
| Spreadsheets | A cell, a range, a row, a column or a whole sheet |
| Images | A rectangular area |
| Websites | Any element on the page |

## What happens when you send

Your message lands in the conversation with each comment shown as a quoted
excerpt of what you picked. Everyone in the Canvas sees it, and so does Rally.
Rally reads the comment together with the exact version you were looking at,
makes the change, and publishes the next version.

So a comment is a message like any other. There is no separate comments list
to keep tidy and nothing to resolve. If the comment was a question rather than
a request, Rally answers it in the conversation instead.

> [!TIP]
> You can comment on an older version too. Rally knows which version you were
> looking at, so "put this paragraph back" works even after three rewrites.

## Comments you have not sent

A comment you confirmed but have not sent is part of your draft. It waits for
you if you switch to another Canvas or quit Rally, the same as the text of an
unsent message (see [The message box](https://rallywith.ai/help/canvases/the-message-box.md#your-draft-waits-for-you)).
Like the rest of a draft, it is kept on this Mac only.

If a comment on an image cannot be saved, Rally says **The crop could not be
uploaded.** If the preview itself cannot take comments yet, it says **The
preview could not be prepared for comments.** Close the panel and open it
again.

Next: the people you share a Canvas with, in [People in a Canvas](https://rallywith.ai/help/canvases/people-in-a-canvas.md).