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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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The Right-Click menu doesn't have a Comments option anymore - so I cannot edit existing comments nor add new ones.
This was for about 30'.
Just now, it has returned, so maybe all is well now.
I have W10 64, Excel 2019
I am now simply copying the affected cells from the October 2018 version of the file from file history and pasting them into the master file. Tedious but there had been no revision to the corruption. in the master file.