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dewege
Jan 30, 2019Copper Contributor
notes attached to cells not visible, broken since last excel update (Office 365 on Mac)
I've got many notes (the yellow non-threaded formerly called comments) in my excel sheets. Since the latest software update I can not display/view my notes anymore. The cells containing note still s...
hy_cpm
Aug 24, 2021Copper Contributor
I know this post is old, but we just had this issue. We're on Windows 10 Pro, with Microsoft 365. The line for the note was visible, but nothing suggested here worked for us. My coworker decided to click and drag to the right on the line, basically like it was a textbox collapsed and IT WORKED. The note was there, just squished into one line on the left.
Aleccs
Nov 03, 2021Copper Contributor
I have dozens of yellow sticky Notes on each of my Excel worksheets. None of them displays upon mousing over. This is been going on for several months. There are no lines drawn to squished notes - I am familiar with that situation. The notes simply do not appear, rather they flash on and off a Split Second when the mouse hovers. I do not see why I need to go to some panel click to show notes in order to read these what happened to the old-fashioned way of having them come up upon mousing? And yes, I have the proper setting in Options Advanced ...display on Hover. Running 365, and have the latest updates.
- murat_ulubayApr 24, 2022Copper Contributorthat's terrible. I have same problem. I put some critical data as notes in the forms of comments and they are not accessible in my new computer with office 2013, I upgraded to 2016, not better.
- Jim6373Apr 30, 2022Copper Contributor
Hello. My first post here.
I have the same problem of an invisible note, but it only affects one cell in my spreadsheet. Just as others have described, there's a red triangle in the upper righthand corner of the cell, and when I attempt to view the note, a call-out line from the cell appears, but no note at the end of the line. I've tried the various suggestions outlined above, but none of them can get the note to appear. All my other cell notes are behaving properly.The fact that only one cell is affected, not the entire SS makes me wonder if it's corrupted, rather than reflective of a global issue with an MS update. Running on a PC under Windows 10.
- AleccsNov 04, 2021Copper ContributorFollow up to my above complaint:
Despite MS setting automatically to Update 365 as needed, and my running the update again a day or two ago, I since discovered a slew of uninstalled updates in a list - buried by MS somewhere out of sight... named "NON-ESSENTIAL" or similar... These dated back a couple of YEARS. Downloaded and Installed them, Restart, etc. -- Notes now appear upon mouse hover ~~ Additionally, the frequent interminable waits to Save - Excel "Not Responding" seem to have ceased.
Lesson learned - look for MS's Uninstalleds and put them in...- KickpuncherJun 08, 2022Copper Contributor
How do you go about finding the uninstalled features? This seems to be the simplest, most broad way of restoring comments but after digging in the files for a while I'm coming up empty.