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
    2019-02-01T15:51:34+00:00

    Thanks oAnast for the official Microsoft version :-)

    Have a good weekend!

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-02-01T15:50:04+00:00

    Thanks!  Glad I could help.  First time I ever posted on here.

    Have a great weekend too!

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-02-01T13:37:13+00:00

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-02-01T11:41:04+00:00

    Yes it does, THX!

    Have a nice weekend :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-02-01T11:19:36+00:00

    I think I have fixed this, at least in terms of "Comments" vs "Notes".  I can't comment on any Mac related issues as I am using Excel under an Office 365 subscription using Windows 10.

    I had created my Comment by right-clicking on a cell and selecting to add a Comment.  Whenever I had done this previously, a yellow box would appear with my username at the top to which I could add my text.  Then, once created, I could permanently Show or Hide this using a new menu option which now appeared when right-clicking the relevant cell.

    I did the same this morning, but the yellow box didn't appear.  Instead, you get the style of comment which you see in Word, in a grey box with a text field.

    After some exploration of this thread and looking at my version of Excel, Microsoft appear to have renamed the older yellow box style "Comments" to "Notes".

    If you create a "Note", you will create the yellow box we used to understand to be a Comment which can then be permanently shown or hidden.

    Hope this helps!

    Neil

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