XL97: Comment Formatting May Be Lost When You Share a Workbook

• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel 97, when you open a workbook, some of the formatting that is applied to a cell comment in the workbook is lost.

CAUSE

This problem occurs if you share the workbook by clicking Share Workbook on the Tools menu and selecting the check box in the Editing tab of the Share Workbook dialog box.

If the workbook is shared and you save and close the workbook, certain kinds of formatting that is applied to comments are not retained.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Excel 97, you can apply many kinds of formatting to text in a cell comment. However, when you share a workbook, only bold and italic comment formatting is retained. When you save and close a shared workbook, all of the following formatting is lost:

   Font
   Font Size
   Font Color
   Underline
   Double Underline
   Strikethrough
   Superscript
   Subscript