
Excel for mac show comments doesnt work install#

To "Noted by" instead of "Commented by." Things like that.Īnd, if you do install Insider Fast, continue discussing Notes and Comments in the special Insider Forum instead of this forum.Īs to whether or not Microsoft activates the new features in the next general release build, that is something we won't know until it comes out. Should old-style comments have their formatting capabilities restored? Should the text of the statusbar message be corrected Might make more sense to continue to use the word Comment for the old-style comments and use the new term Notes for the New style comments. Send your observations along with your ideas on how it OUGHT to work. If you install Insider Fast, PLEASE provide feedback to Microsoft using the Smile button in Excel. This is the long way to get to the point I am trying to make.

The mechanism that determines roll-over is working, but it is not triggering the display of the Note (formerly called Comment), but it does trigger the connecting line to where the comment should be. When Excel 2016 is set to show comments and indicators on rollover, you will see the status bar change to a message that there is a comment (which is probably a mistake, since they are now called Notes), but the comment does not display on roll-over). VBA does not successfully change the format of Notes in Excel 2016. Formatting that was applied by Excel 2011 and earlier is honored. You can not format notes the way you could format traditional comments in the past.

If you want to insert a traditional comment, you insert a new Note. What is currently in Insider Fast may or may not be the final version.Īs things stand today in Insider Fast 16.18, the traditional Comments feature is now called Notes. Microsoft has been fiddling with the Comments feature since Office 2016 was first release 3 years ago. The new Comments feature is a major feature that will require a lot of testing before it finds its Whether or not specific features move down this path each monthĭepends on a lot of factors, so it's not guaranteed that if you see a new feature in Insider Fast that it will automatically work its way to general release. The following week, Insider Slow becomes the general release build available to everyone. Further to what Ran and Rena have mentioned, the entire Comments feature is changing.įirst, here's more information about joining Insider Fast: What is Office Insider? -Īn Insider Fast build generally becomes the beta build (Insider Slow) the first week of each month.
