The tricky part (maybe if you’re new to Microsoft Office) requires you to place the mouse on the edge of the comment box, over the bar-dot line, and right click the mouse to launch the shortcut menu in Excel 2007. The backspace key always works on Excel 2008 for cell comments.ģ. The backspace key doesn’t work all the time and I’m not sure why that’s the case on Excel 2007. If you only want an image, highlight the user name with the mouse and delete it. Click on the Insert Comment menu item, which launches the comment with the name of the user. Right click on the cell to launch the shortcut menu, like this:Ģ. It’s a shame the best way to do this screen capture is on Apple OS X, but that’s life!ġ. Hoping to help my students and others learn the magic, here are some steps. In the Fill Effects dialog box, click the Picture tab and then click the Select Picture Button to specify a graphics file.” – Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Bible. Click the Color drop-down list and select Fill Effects.
Select the Colors and Lines tab in the Format Comment dialog box. Just make sure you right click on the edge not inside the text box of the comment. “You can also display an image inside of a comment. I’ve modified the tip by adding the sentence in blue, with what I think it should say. The Format Comment … menu choice launches a different set of options dependent on your location in an editable comment. If your cursor is on the text portion of the comment, the context menu operates differently. You need to place your cursor on the highlighted edge of an editable comment before right clicking to launch the context menu. Basically, the general idea is there but a step of magic requires you to know something else. I’d have to say that it did but it didn’t. UDFs differ from VBA macros and you can find my Excel UDF Tutorial here. Updated this post and provided a new blog post that lets you add an image on Excel 2007, Excel 2010, and Excel 2011 with a VBA User-Defined Function (UDF). One of my students noted that a tip in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Bible (a truly good book on Excel 2007) didn’t provide the magic to insert an image into a cell comment.
How you add an image to a comment isn’t exactly what I’d call easy but it is straightforward.
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