Inger, it looks like the field with the extra text is the Approver's comments field.  Is that correct?  I'm assuming that the field is getting populated as part of the workflow.  Are you able to see where in the workflow that field is getting updated?  That would be the first place you'd need to look to see why this is happening.  A screen shot of the workflow and the action updating this field would help the community to be able to respond.

Brendan,

You are correct.  I  do have a workflow.I hope this helps

Attached are a few screen shots

Good morning Inger,

seems you're showing all the approver comments. As you use LazyApproval that basically shows you the whole email that the user sent when approving the task.

I see two quick steps here

• hide the column workflow status from your list to shrink the view. You already have an approve/reject status column which should be fine
• If needed add a custom workflow status column where you define the workflow status that you want to show

Kind regards,

Enrico

I think ‌ nailed it.  Having never been privy enough myself to be  in a place where Lazy approvals were utilized, I did not know this would happen.  Another thought, if you really want to have the approver comments displayed on the list without all the extra Jargon, would be to see if you could format the approval comments from the Lazy approval and store them in another field that you display.  It looks like the approver comments are the very first line, and you could probably use a RegEx to extract those and save those to another field for display.  

Thanks for all the great responses and suggestions.

Which button controls whether or not you can see the approver comments?

You could edit the view of your SharePoint list and hide the column workflow status.

Would that help?