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    Question Change the color of the comment icon

    Hello,

    I want to know if we can change the color of the comment icon (when we add comment for a cell it gives a triangle form in red) can we change the color please.

    thanks in advance,

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    Re: Change the color of the comment icon

    Hi, rami10,

    AFAIK you would need to add Shapes via VBA over the indicators to show a different colour.

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    Re: Change the color of the comment icon

    No, there is no setting to change the color of the red triangle comment indicator.

    If you Google "Excel change comment indicator color" you'll come across an ugly alternative that actually uses VBA programming to draw triangular shaped boxes over the original indicators, and of course you can color those any color you want. This amount of plumbing for such a trivial gain I would never directly recommend. But it's out there. Ugh.
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    Re: Change the color of the comment icon

    Hello

    Not sure if you mean something like this

    Right click in the comment>>format comment
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