While Microsoft Excel's comments and notes tools both let you annotate a cell, they serve different purposes, work in diverse ways, and vary in how they look on a printed Excel worksheet. In this ...

When you need to draw attention to a worksheet cell, Microsoft Excel allows you to type a note in a yellow comment box. If your worksheet appears cluttered with these little yellow boxes, update Excel ...

This post describes how to autofit comment box in Excel. While adding a large comment in a cell in Microsoft Excel, you may have noticed that only a part of it is visible to you by default. You need ...

Every time I add a comment in an Excel cell, it automatically inserts my name. Since I’m the only one using this computer and I don’t send my worksheets to anyone else, it’s a nuisance. How can I stop ...

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