Insert Comment option is missing from right-click menu

Anonymous
2019-03-09T21:28:27+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2020-02-19T22:26:55+00:00

    I posted a few days ago that the Insert Comment feature/option while R click in Excel on a cell disappeared, it's active again today and no need for the workaround(s) anymore.

    Only change between my post a few days ago (with the problem) and today (without the problem) is that I had Shut Down my computer at one point, although I'm not exactly sure when the Insert Comment upon R click re activated.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-02-19T15:07:37+00:00

    the insert comment option has disappeared from my right click context menu too.  Running Excel Office 365.   If I use one of the work arounds suggested above to insert a comment, the option then appears to edit or delete the comment. 

    But if the cell has no comment in it, I have to use 3 or 4 steps to insert it as opposed to one previously.... hoping this is a temporary bug because it stupid.

    This thread started almost a year ago, so I guess it depends on your definition of temporary.  To be fair, how long do those 3 or 4 steps actually take? Bigger picture, worse things happening around the world and all that.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-02-19T14:29:47+00:00

    the insert comment option has disappeared from my right click context menu too.  Running Excel Office 365.   If I use one of the work arounds suggested above to insert a comment, the option then appears to edit or delete the comment. 

    But if the cell has no comment in it, I have to use 3 or 4 steps to insert it as opposed to one previously.... hoping this is a temporary bug because it stupid.

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-02-18T13:38:06+00:00

    Home tab, click "Tell me what you want to do" type insert comment. Be sure you are in the cell where u want the comment.

    Worked for me!

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-08T16:10:33+00:00

    Shift + f2 works

    Would like to know how to add the feature back (upon R click) - seems like a lot of people are having problems with the Insert Comment disappearing (was working fine for me the other day).

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