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I am using Excel 2016 on Windows 10. Today, the "Insert comment" option disappeared from the right-click pop-up context menu. When I right-click on a cell with no comment, there is no option to add one. If I right-click on a cell with a comment, I can edit or delete the comment. On the Insert tab of the ribbon, the Comments section is grayed out. This problem is affecting all spreadsheets that I have tried.
I googled the problem and tried every solution offered but none of them worked. How can I add comments to cells again?
Thank you
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only thing i've found to work was actually search for the word "comment" in top of spreadsheet page search bar.
It works now.
Suddenly I have two new options in the right click menu (new comment and new note).
The thing that works like the old insert comment is new note.
I don't know if it help anyone but I changed the Account > Office Insider level to Insider.
Good luck.
I'm expecting the answer that Insert Comment with right click is an Office 365 feature.
After a year or more or scratching their heads with another problem (deselecting a cell with CTRL in Excel 2016) someone found the only solution: "Olaf Hubel (Microsoft) posted a new reply in Excel on 03-07-2019 01:29 PM:
Re: Unable to deselect in excel
Sorry for all the confusion around this.
The Deselect feature is an Office 365 (Home, Business, ….) and Office 2019 feature.
This means it does not work in Office 2016. We had a bug where it was turned on for a very short time by mistake in Office 2016. We have fixed this bug, this happend at the same time we also had to disable the feature for a month in Office 365. After we fixed all open issues we turned it back on for Office 365.
The deselect feature never existed in Office 2016 (or any other older version). We created this feature in late 2017.
I hope this answers your question.
Olaf"
Same issue for me. Just appeard.
Is there a fix for this? Or is the insert comment moved?
I have build 1903
Hi,
Thank you for letting us know that your issue inserting comments seems to be working as expected right now. Just in case anything comes up, simply post a new thread for us to immediately assist you.
Regards.