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Hovering Over Notes No Longer Working
Sometime over the past week or so, none of my Excel 365 Notes will display when I hover my mouse over a cell with a Note. This issue occurs in every workbook I open or create. My guess is that it's due to one of my recent updates for the Office Insider program. Please advise.
You are right, it doesn't work on
Works with comments.
I sent a frown, that will be great if you do the same.
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I'm looking for a solution to this now, years after you...
Excel Version 2501 (Build 18429.20200)
Comments are showing when hovering over, but Notes don't.Henk, sorry for your Notes hover issues. Just checked my files, and no issues for me. Good luck.
I have just had this issue again.
Found a work around by converting all notes to comments. Very annoying indeed.
- Notes are working again! I just installed the latest Insider update available when I checked my Excel Account drop-down, and after it completed, all my previously inserted Notes are appearing on Mouse hover again. Thank you MS.
Thank you Steve, updating Excel account did the trick.
- Phil, I use a PC, and everything has been fine since my 4/29/22 note above. I suggest you do what I was advised to do, and send weekly notes via the feedback option in Excel, highlighting the fact you use Excel on a Mac and not a PC.
- I just received the following email from the MS Team:
Thank you for sending Microsoft feedback. Your input is valuable to us and helps improve our products.
Thank you for your feedback. We are aware of an issue with the hover experience with Modern Comments and Notes, where Notes are not appearing on hover and Modern Comments are often not appearing in their correct location. We believe your issue will be resolved in an upcoming Office update. The build that will include the fix is 16.0.14827.20060.
We apologize for the interruption in your experience. Until this issue has been addressed, please use "Show All Notes" to view Notes and use the comment pane to view Comments.
Thank you for sending Microsoft feedback. Your input is valuable to us and helps improve our products.
Your feedback directly resulted in improvements to Office.
To get the latest update, follow the steps here.
For your reference, you submitted the following feedback on April 19, 2022:
With latest update, hoving over Notes still no longer works. Please fix ASAP! Very annoying.
If you have any questions, please reply back to this email.
Thank you,
The Microsoft Team- MS Follow-Up:
Thank you for sending Microsoft feedback. Your input is valuable to us and helps improve our products.
Apologies. The correct build which will include this update is: 16.0.15216.20060
For your reference, you submitted the following feedback on April 19, 2022:
With latest update, hoving over Notes still no longer works. Please fix ASAP! Very annoying.
If you have any questions, please reply back to this email.
Thank you,
The Microsoft Team Thanks for sharing. So, "feedback" works.
Yes, I have the second option checked like I always have. I have made no option changes whatsoever over the past weeks. This is clearly a result of either a recent MS 365 or Windows 10 update. This is not due to user changes, believe me. I've been working with these programs for 25 years and know an update-caused issue from a user-caused issue.
You are right, it doesn't work on
Works with comments.
I sent a frown, that will be great if you do the same.
