VBA macro word comment

Question

I'm new to VBA macros for word. I need to alter an exciting macro operating on comment in word. I need to add the comment reference to a string. What is call the comment reference is the string inside the square brackets, here SM4:

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How do i get the comment reference?

Answer 1

I'm fairly clueless re Word coding, but this seems to do what you want:

Dim ocom As Comment
For Each ocom In ActiveDocument.Comments
    With ocom
        MsgBox .Author & vbCrLf & .Initial
        MsgBox .Range.Text
    End With
Next