Excel provides an alternative to cell comments. The Excel’s Data Validation feature can help us to display a pop-up message when a cell is selected. Using this method, we needn’t to insert the comment by the normal way. Just navigate to the Comments section on the REVIEW tab and click on the Show All Comments option. One click and all the comments in the current sheet are displayed on the screen. After reviewing the cell notes, you can hide them by clicking Show All Comments again. Excel macro that provides extra linked information as comment on mousover. How to create mouseover in Excel - adding extended information as comment. On Click and Mouse Hover in Microsoft. We can insert the comment through the Input Message option of Data Validation feature. Click a cell where you want to insert the comment. Go to click Data > Data Validation > Data Validation, see screenshot: 3. In the Data Validation dialog box, go to the Input Message tab, and check Show input message when cell is selected option, then you can enter the title and message as your need. See screenshot: 4. After inputting the message that you need, click OK to close this dialog. And now when you select the cell, the message will be popped up just look like a comment. Show comments when cell is selected with VBA code If there are multiple comments in your worksheet already, to retype them one by one with the above method will be time consuming, so, I can introduce a VBA code to help you show the comment when cell is selected. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys, and it opens the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window. Then choose your used worksheet from the left Project Explorer, double click it to open the Module, and then copy and paste following VBA code into the blank Module: VBA code: Show comments when cell is selected Private FRg As Range Private Sub Worksheet_SelectionChange(ByVal Target As Range) 'Update 20140909 On Error Resume Next If (FRg Is Nothing) = False Then FRg.Comment.Visible = False End If Target.Comment.Visible = True Set FRg = Target End Sub 3. Save and close the code, and return to the worksheet, now, when you select a cell with comment by pressing arrow key, the comment will be shown as follows: Related articles. Increase your productivity in 5 minutes. Don't need any special skills, save two hours every day! 300 New Features for Excel, Make Excel Much Easy and Powerful: • Merge Cell/Rows/Columns without Losing Data. • Combine and Consolidate Multiple Sheets and Workbooks. • Compare Ranges, Copy Multiple Ranges, Convert Text to Date, Unit and Currency Conversion. • Count by Colors, Paging Subtotals, Advanced Sort and Super Filter, • More Select/Insert/Delete/Text/Format/Link/Comment/Workbooks/Worksheets Tools.
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