12. A computer program product stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include: opening a word processing document that includes document content and a plurality of comments inserted at a plurality of insertion points within the document content, wherein the opening occurs during a word processing application currently assigned to a user identifier, and wherein one or more of the plurality of comments includes one or more recipient identifiers; selecting a first set of comments from the plurality of comments where the user identifier is included in the recipient identifiers of the corresponding comments; identifying a first set of one or more encrypted comments included in the first set of comments; retrieving a user encryption key corresponding to the user identifier; decrypting the first set of encrypted comments using the retrieved user encryption key; selecting a second set of comments from the plurality of comments where the user identifier is not included in the recipient identifiers of the corresponding comments; displaying the first set of comments, each of the first set of comments being displayed at their respective insertion points within the document content; and inhibiting display of the second set of comments.
12. A computer program product stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions that include: opening a word processing document that includes document content and a plurality of comments inserted at a plurality of insertion points within the document content, wherein the opening occurs during a word processing application currently assigned to a user identifier, and wherein one or more of the plurality of comments includes one or more recipient identifiers; selecting a first set of comments from the plurality of comments where the user identifier is included in the recipient identifiers of the corresponding comments; identifying a first set of one or more encrypted comments included in the first set of comments; retrieving a user encryption key corresponding to the user identifier; decrypting the first set of encrypted comments using the retrieved user encryption key; selecting a second set of comments from the plurality of comments where the user identifier is not included in the recipient identifiers of the corresponding comments; displaying the first set of comments, each of the first set of comments being displayed at their respective insertion points within the document content; and inhibiting display of the second set of comments. 16. The computer program product of claim 12 wherein a second set of one or more encrypted comments is included in the second set of comments, and wherein the retrieved user encryption key is unable to decrypt the second set of encrypted comments.