Add and view cell comments

Owned by Denise McGettigan, created
Last updated: Sept 12, 2024
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To help your team collaborate on budget and forecast values, explain something to another user or ask another user a question, you can add comments against individual cells in a worksheet. In addition to the text comment, you can add links to websites and documents in a cloud storage folder. For example, you might want to add documentary evidence to your cell data.

When you add a comment and/or a link, a purple triangle displays in the top-right corner of the cell, indicating to other users that there is a comment to view.

If you or other users export the workbook, the cell comments are included in the export.

All the changes you make to the cells in a worksheet tab are also recorded in the audit log.

Add a comment or link against a cell

  1. Either click the cell and click the Cell menu > Open cell comments or right-click the cell and click Comments.

  2. Type your comment into the text box and/or use the keyboard shortcut CTRL+V to paste in a link you copied from elsewhere.

  3. Click Submit.

You can edit and delete any links that you add.

View a cell comment or link

Either hover over the purple triangle to view an excerpt of the comment/link or click the triangle to view the full comment. Clicks the link to open it in a new browser tab.

To reply to a comment, click the purple triangle, then type your comment and click Submit.

The workflow comments feature is another way of communicating with the users contributing to the budget or forecast.