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Excel question - change position of 'ScreenTip' display ???

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Old 16 June 2003, 02:28 PM
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In Excel...
I have column A containing many comments which users may wish to see.

Column A is also frozen to be viewable at all times.

If the user has scrolled across the sheet and columns B and C are not visible the comments are not visible when hovering the mouse over the cell. How can I ensure that the comments remain visible to the 'mouse hover'. They seem to be related to both 'ToolTips' and 'ScreenTips' in MS jargon & helpfiles...

Also where Excel starts a comment box text with the username - is it possible to change the default font from bold black?

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Old 16 June 2003, 10:09 PM
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This seems to be a known issue because the comment is a sheet object and thus does not get displayed when "off" screen. Only way that seemed to be possible to show the comment is by inserting a blank column B and setting freeze panes on that so there is enough room for the comment to show when hovering over A.

Not sure about the font.
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You can change the font, but it changes for the entire comment, not just the title/name, and changing it will change all "Tooltips" anywhere else in Windows.

If you want to change it, go to Control Panel > Display > Appearance and change the values for Tooltips
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So... Not much to be done then.

Thanks for your responses anyway guys

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