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    Hi all, my first post, so excuse any errors. I have a excel sheet which represents an Execution Plan, with coloured cells at certain Milestones. Each Milestone has a small Comment attached to it and shows permanently. This works fine when I used a coloured cell to indicate the Milestone.

    I now use msoShapeDiamond to indicate the Milestone and did, a few days ago, find a way to Addcomment to the shape in a similar way to adding a Comment to a cell. Most embarrassing, I deleted that bit of code and have been googling for two days now (searched my history) and I can’t find the site where I first saw the solution.

    Any help much appreciated.

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    Re: Add Comment to Excel Shape

    I don't think you can add a comment to a shape but you can add a hyperlink with a screen tip like this:

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    Re: Add Comment to Excel Shape

    Many thanks WBD, that certainly works ok however I need the comments to be always visible. I'm beginning to think I imagined finding a solution.... It was late at night!
    I could put comments in the cell behind but the user also needs to be able to move the shape on the sheet.

    cheers and thanks for the quick response.

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    Re: Add Comment to Excel Shape

    You could add a callout shape at the side and group them together?

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    Re: Add Comment to Excel Shape

    You could add the text to the shape itself, if you want it always visible.
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    Re: Add Comment to Excel Shape

    thanks Rory, I did add text to the activity shapes (which are elongated pentagons) but the diamonds are too small.

    cheers

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    Hi WBD, that seems to do the trick very nicely thank you.

    much appreciated!

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    Re: Add Comment to Excel Shape

    The text doesn't have to be confined to the shape - there is a setting to allow it to overflow.

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    Re: Add Comment to Excel Shape

    thanks rorya, as wiht most thjings in lefe, the simple solution is the best solution. I tried this but did not like the way in sat in the middle of the Diamond so was a tad illegible, a simple addition of 3 spaces to the comment and a change of font colour has worked brilliantly!
    Much appreciated this and all other suggestions.
    I'm gonna leave the thread open for a little while in case someone does have a way to add comments, just for my own piece of mind that is. I'm using this solution as we speak.

    all the best
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