XL98: Error Applying Comment When Worksheets Are Grouped

• Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, if you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro that attempts to add a comment to a cell in a worksheet, you may receive the following error message:

   Run-time error '1004':
   NoteText method of Range class failed

CAUSE

This error message occurs when the macro contains a line of code similar to the following

   ActiveCell.NoteText Text:="This is a comment."

WORKAROUND

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Method 1: Use the Range and NoteText Methods

Do not use the NoteText method with the ActiveCell property directly. Instead, use the ActiveCell property to determine what cell to comment, and then apply the comment to that cell using the Range and NoteText methods. The following sample macro demonstrates this technique:

   Sub Test1()

       'Use "Range(ActiveCell.Address)" in place of "ActiveCell."
       Range(ActiveCell.Address).NoteText Text:="This is a comment."

   End Sub

Method 2: Use a Loop

To apply the same comment to the active cell in all of the grouped worksheets, you can use For Each and Next statements to loop through all of the worksheets. The following sample macro demonstrates this technique:

   Sub Test2()

       'For each currently selected worksheet...
       For Each xSheet In ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets

           '...add a comment to the active cell in that sheet.
           xSheet.Range(ActiveCell.Address).NoteText Text:="Hello!"

       'Repeat for all of the grouped worksheets.
       Next xSheet

   End Sub

STATUS

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.

MORE INFORMATION

In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, if you run a macro that contains the following line of code

   ActiveCell.NoteText Text:="This is a comment."

In Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, if you run a macro that contains this line of code when multiple worksheets are grouped, you receive the error message mentioned in the "Symptoms" section.

Note that in all versions of Microsoft Excel, you cannot manually comment a cell by clicking Comment or Note on the Insert menu when multiple worksheets are grouped.

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications