Excel comments not displaying

Anonymous
2017-01-22T11:53:30+00:00

I have excel 2016, and the comments have been working fine.  Just recently it does not display comments when I mouse over them. The show/hide command in the review tab is greyed out.  I never had this problem before, and never had to see if the comment show/hide feature was active or not.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-07-23T09:30:16+00:00

    I have the same problem, as soon as I start to cut and paste cells/rows around, these comment no longer display correctly.

    I think the position and size of the comment is not related to the actual cell (say 10 pixel above and right to cell),

    as soon as you move cells around, that formulae break, and it has the size/position all mess up.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-05-22T10:09:05+00:00

    Is this being looked at by anyone? I note there have been a couple of Office updates since this problem first occurred, but the problem still remains. I also note that creating / re-creating the comment works fine, but I simply cannot go back over every comment and re-add. They work fine with Excel online. When can we expect a fix for this?

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-04-14T20:35:03+00:00

    encountering the same frustrating issue with comments not displaying on hovering. Excel 16.12 for Mac

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-08T19:58:16+00:00

    This has been going on WAY TOO LONG.  I can't hover for comments in existing workbooks nor in new ones.  I have the latest install according to the update utility.

    This is affecting our workflow.

    Excel for Mac version 16.10 (180210) Product ID: 02984-001-000001

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-03-08T10:02:07+00:00

    I am still encountering the same issue. It's unbelievable how such a problem in Excel cannot be solved despite numerous efforts. And I'm not talking about the ordinary users, but by the expert users or the originator.

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