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
    2018-09-21T14:37:51+00:00

    September 2018 and I'm still having this same issue. Extremely frustrating as a paying user of this product. Please address.

    This comment really needs someone to take a look!

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-09-21T15:00:32+00:00

    Yes, Microsoft is not keen to address this issue. 

    I think their support for Office-365 sucks.

    I hope one of their technical staff gets to read these comments.

    So far, it hasn't yielded any result.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-09-22T19:03:34+00:00

    Like the rest of you, the latest version of Excel for Mac I've installed (v.16.17) has the "hover" problem.  COMMENTS still do not display as they did in earlier versions with a simple "hover".  Sure is a mystery why its not been fixed. 

    I did find one stopgap technique that has saved me time and that will display one COMMENT at a time.  Thought I'd share.    Select the REVIEW tab on the top bar of the sheet display  and leave it open.  When I want to see a comment, I click on the cell and then hit the show/hide comment icon within the REVIEW.  One click displays the COMMENT for the selected cell and a second click closes it.  With a little practice, I can now move along quickly.  

    I, too, expected more by now from MS Excel. i too would like to see the "hover" feature returned to its original reliability.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-09-23T17:44:08+00:00

    Rollover comment display is working fine in LibreOffice 6.1.1 for Mac.

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