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Extract comments from a Word document

Source: R/extract_comments.R
extract_comments.Rd

Reads a .docx file and extracts all comments including the commented (highlighted) text, the comment text, author, date, and the full paragraph context in which the comment is anchored.

Usage

extract_comments(docx_path)

Arguments

docx_path

Path to a .docx file.

Value

A tibble::tibble with columns:

  • comment_id: Character. The comment ID from the document.

  • author: Character. Name of the comment author.

  • date: Character. ISO 8601 timestamp of the comment.

  • comment_text: Character. The comment body text.

  • commented_text: Character. The text range that was highlighted/selected.

  • paragraph_context: Character. Full text of the paragraph(s) containing the commented range.

Examples

# Extract comments from a reviewed document
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
comments <- extract_comments("report_reviewed.docx")
comments
} # }