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Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel

Bryan
Have a lot of comments in your spreadsheet and want to find all of them? Excel Macros can highlight all cells with comments for you!
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Make sure your Excel has the Developer Tab enabled following this tutorial.

I explain how you can do this below step by step!

What does it do?

Highlights all cells with comments

Copy Source Code:

</p>
<p>Sub HighlightCellsWithComments()</p>
<p>'Select the cells with comments<br />
Selection.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeComments).Select</p>
<p>'Set all the cells' style to the Note style<br />
Selection.Style= &amp;quot;Note&amp;quot;</p>
<p>End Sub</p>
<p>

Final Result: 

Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel

Exercise Workbook:

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Download excel workbookHighlight-Cells-with-Comments.xlsm


This is our initial set of data, you can see the ones with the red triangle on the right corner are the ones with comments inserted:

Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel

STEP 1: Go to Developer > Code > Visual Basic

Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel | MyExcelOnline

 

STEP 2: Paste in your code and Select Save. Close the window afterwards.

Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel

 

STEP 3: Let us test it out!

Open the sheet containing the data. Go to Developer > Code > Macros

Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel | MyExcelOnline

 

Make sure your macro is selected. Click Run.

Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel

 

With just one click, all of the cells with comments are now highlighted!Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel

 

How to Highlight Cells with Comments Using Macros In Excel

 

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Bryan

Bryan Hong is an IT Software Developer for more than 10 years and has the following certifications: Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD): Web Developer, Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS): Windows Applications, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) and Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA).

He is also an Amazon #1 bestselling author of 4 Microsoft Excel books and a teacher of Microsoft Excel & Office at the MyExecelOnline Academy Online Course.

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