Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Office 2003 in 24 Hours

By Greg Perry

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You!
  • Introduction
  • Who Should Read This Book?
  • What This Book Does for You
  • Can This Book Really Teach Office 2003 in 24 Hours?
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • Part I. Working with Office 2003
  • Hour 1. Getting Acquainted with Office 2003
  • Part II. Processing with Word 2003
  • Hour 2. Welcome to Word 2003
  • Hour 3. Formatting with Word 2003
  • Hour 4. Managing Documents and Customizing Word 2003
  • Hour 5. Advanced Word 2003
  • Part III. Computing with Excel 2003
  • Hour 6. Understanding Excel 2003 Workbooks
  • Hour 7. Restructuring and Editing Excel 2003 Worksheets
  • Hour 8. Using Excel 2003
    • AutoCorrect Worksheets
    • Reviewing Cut, Copy, and Paste in Excel
    • Clearing Data
    • Speed Data Entry
    • Smarter Fills with AutoFill
    • Designing Your Own Fills
    • A Word About Printing
    • Adding Comments
    • Summary
    • Q&A
  • Hour 9. Formatting Worksheets to Look Great
  • Hour 10. Charting with Excel 2003
  • Part IV. Presenting with Flair
  • Hour 11. PowerPoint 2003 Presentations
  • Hour 12. Editing and Arranging Your Presentations
  • Hour 13. PowerPoint 2003 Advanced Features
  • Hour 14. Animating Your Presentations
  • Part V. Organizing with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 15. Communicating with Outlook 2003
  • Hour 16. Planning and Scheduling with Outlook 2003
  • Part VI. Tracking with Access 2003
  • Hour 17. Access 2003 Basics
  • Hour 18. Entering and Displaying Access 2003 Data
  • Hour 19. Retrieving Your Data
  • Hour 20. Reporting with Access 2003
  • Part VII. Combining Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 21. Office 2003 and the Internet
  • Hour 22. Creating Web Content with Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint
  • Part VIII. Publishing Eye-Catching Documents
  • Hour 23. Publishing with Flair Using Publisher 2003
  • Hour 24. Adding Art to Your Publications
  • Part IX. Appendixes
  • Appendix B. Business Contact Manager and Office Extras
  • Part X. Bonus Hours
  • Hour 25. Using FrontPage 2003 for Web Page Design and Creation
  • Hour 26. Managing Your Web with FrontPage

Adding Comments

You can insert comments in cells. The comments act like yellow sticky notes onscreen, except that the notes in Excel aren't in the way when you don't want to see them. The comments don't appear in the cell; when you insert a comment, Excel indicates that the comment resides within the cell by flagging the cell's upper-right corner with a red triangle. When you point to the cell, Excel displays the attached comment.

To attach a comment to a selected cell, select Insert, Comment or right-click over a cell and select Insert Comment. Excel opens the box shown in Figure 8.7. Type your comment in the box and press Enter. Excel automatically places your name at the beginning of the comment (assuming that you entered your name when you installed Office). The name indicates who added the comment in case you work in a multiple-user environment. (You can erase the name if you don't want to see it.) You can leave co-workers notes if you edit worksheets as a team. You can also leave yourself a note to fill in data that you might get from an outside source later.

Figure 8.7 Comments help document the worksheet cells.

The section "Clearing Data" earlier in this hour tells you how to remove comments you no longer need.

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