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How to unhide comments in Excel

July 25, 2015 by Admin 1 Comment

Excel 2013 and Excel 2010 generally shows comments in worksheet with the Indicator as shown below.

And when you hover over the indicator it will display the added comments.

But in case if you are not able see the comments added to your worksheet then try the unhide option available as part of the

Click the File menu and then the Options link
In the Excel Option window, navigate to Advanced Options
Scroll down to display section and For cells with comments radio option select your preferred choice i.e either Indicators only, and comments on hover or Comments and indicators.
4. Click Ok to save and confirm the changes.

How to search, print and unhide comments in Excel

July 24, 2015 by Admin 3 Comments

Adding a comment to a cell in Microsoft Excel is very useful feature. You can always locate a comment by red arrow appearing at the top right corner of the cell.

List below are the steps to search, print and unhide comments in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010.

Search comment in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

But searching and finding inserted comments in a excel worksheet with number of rows spanning across more than a page will be a huge task. This can be simplified using the Search Comments option available as part of the Find feature. To find comments in Excel 2010 and Excel 2013, navigate to Editing section and click the drop down arrow available next to Find & Select option.

This would display the following menu options as part of the Find & Select feature.

Click Comments from the list of available menus. This would locate the comment in your Excel Worksheet. And if you have more than one comment, then press tab to navigate to each comment.

Print cell comment in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

Excel by default does not print the comments and you can enable this feature using the Page Setup option.

Let us added the following comment for a cell in Excel Worksheet.

Now when you navigate to Print Preview option (File –> Print), Excel will not show the added comments. Click the Page Setup option available under Print Preview Settings page.

In the Page Setup Window, click the Sheet tab and navigate to Print section. For comments drop down, choose “At end of sheet” or “As displayed on sheet” for Comments. Let us go with “At end of sheet”, click Ok button to confirm and save the changes.

Now the print preview screen will display the comments at the end of sheet and the same will get printed while printing the worksheet.

Unhide comment in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

If you are not able see the comments in worksheet then you can try to use the unhide option available as part of the Excel Advanced Options.

Click the File menu and then the Options link.
In the Excel Option window, navigate to Advanced Options.
Scroll down to display section and For cells with comments radio option select your preferred choice i.e either Indicators only, and comments on hover or Comments and indicators.

Click Ok to save and confirm the changes.

Also See: How to Insert, Delete, Customize Comments in Excel 2010

How to Insert, Delete, Customize Comments in Excel

July 22, 2015 by Admin 8 Comments

This tutorial provides information on the comment feature available in Excel 2013 & Excel 2010. The following will be covered as part of this tutorial.

How to insert comment
Customize the comment box
Navigate between Comments
Delete Comment

How to insert comment

Excel allows users to insert comment using the options available as part of the Review menu. But if you want to quickly insert then right click on the cell and select Insert Comment from the listed menus.

Customize Comment

A typical comment box in Excel is as shown below.

In order to change the name that appears on the Comment box, click on the File menu then the Option link then in the General tab, navigate to Personalize your copy if Microsoft Office and enter your desired name in the User name box. Click OK button to save the changes. Now the entered name will appear when you Insert new Comments.

Similarly if you want to change the Font Style used in Comment box then select then right click on the Comment box and select Format Comment menu option.

The Format Comment window allows you change the Comments Font Style.

Navigate between Comments

If you have more than one comment inserted in the Excel worksheet and you want to navigate between the comments then you can use the menu options available as part of the Comment section under Review menu. The list option includes Show All Comments, Previous and Next.

Delete Comment

A Comment can be quickly deleted are hidden by right clicking on the cell and selecting the required menu option. You can also use the menu option available as part of the Comments section under Review menu.

By this way you can Insert, customise, navigate and delete comments in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

How to recover a workbook in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

May 29, 2015 by Admin 1 Comment

This tutorial explains the auto recover feature available in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010. The auto recover feature regularly takes a backup of the workbook and stores it in a pre defined location. This feature is useful if Excel suddenly crashes and you want to recover the working copy.

Document Recovery

A document recovery pane will be displayed on the left hand side of the Excel worksheet when excel is opened after a crash.This would contain the workbook(s) which were kept open during the crash.

If you want to recover any of the displayed workbook, then select the required file from the available files list.

Change AutoRecover file location

You can specify the path for auto recovery feature using Save workbooks Options. Click the File menu then Options link and then navigate to the Save tab.

Again navigate to the Save workbooks section in Save Options screen. Using AutoRecover file location you can specify the path for automatic backup.

Change AutoRecover Time interval

Using Save AutoRecover information spinner field you can increase or decrease the minutes at which the auto save needs to happen.

Disable AuoRecovery

We have seen the importance of AutoRecovery feature in Excel and by default this is enabled. But Excel also provides option for disabling this feature.

You can disable this by navigating to AutoRecover exceptions section then un tick the checkbox with label as Disable AutoRecover for this workbook only.

Any changes made to this would get reflected after clicking on the OK button available at the bottom of the Save options screen.

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Change the default file location in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

May 28, 2015 by Admin 1 Comment

We have already seen the following articles on Microsoft Word 2010 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2010.

How to change default file location in Word 2010.
How to change default file location in PowerPoint 2010.

In this tutorial we are going to see how to change the default file location in Microsoft Excel 2013 and Excel 2010.

Click the File menu on Microsoft Excel and then the options link.

In the Option window, navigate to Save workbooks section under Save option. Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating system will have the default file location set to their users document folder. Now change this to your preferred working folder by making the necessary changes to Default file location property. After making the change, click Ok button to confirm and save the changes.

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Change undo limit in Excel 2013 and Excel 2010

May 22, 2015 by Admin 3 Comments

As per the Excel Specifications and limits the maximum limit for undo in Excel 2010 is set to 100. In the previous version of Excel this was set to 16. The maximum limit value is fixed but you can increase or decrease this limit by modify registry settings.

Please Note:- Changing Registry Settings is not recommended and do this with at most caution while trying these changes.

To change the undo maximum limit, Open Windows Registry Editor and then navigate to the following path

HKEY_CURRENT_USER –> Software –> Microsoft –> Office –> 14.0->Excel->Options

Create a new DWORD value with the key name as UndoHistory

Then modify UndoHistory by setting the Base as Decimal and value as 16. Click the OK button to save the changes.

This would decrease the number of undo same as the previous of Excel. You can also increase the undo limit from 100 to 200 for Excel 2010 by changing the above created Windows Registry key.