Importing comments from Word 2004 isn't working?

In my hope not to have to upgrade to Office 2008 (and I say that even as a Microsoft shareholder), I am trying to move a 200-page manuscript (which will be soon be a 450-page manuscript) to Pages. It's a novel, no images, only basic formatting and footers and right now, comments. My only issue (besides not having chapter numbering in Pages, hello Apple?) is that my numerous comments in the Word 2004 document are NOT importing over to Pages. I don't understand this, as I have imported smaller Word 2004 documents into Pages with comments intact. Any suggestions as to what I might try would be deeply appreciated; I will have to finish this novel in Word 2004 if I can't get this to work. And I would prefer not to.

jvabbott,
Welcome to Apple discussions.
I know this sounds obvious, but have you turned on the Comments feature for that document? I get book manuscripts all the time with comments, and have no problems with them.
-Dennis

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