XL2000: Comment Formatting May Be Lost When You Share a Workbook

• Microsoft Excel 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you open a workbook, some of the formatting that you applied to a cell comment in the workbook is lost.

CAUSE

This problem occurs if the workbook is shared.

NOTE: To share a workbook, click Share Workbook on the Tools menu. On the Editing tab, click to select the Allow changes by more than one user at the same time check box and click OK.

WORKAROUND

There is currently no workaround for this problem.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

In Microsoft Excel, you can apply many kinds of formatting to text in a cell comment. If you don't share a workbook, all formatting is retained. However, if you share a workbook, only bold and italic comment formatting is retained. When you save and close a shared workbook, the following formatting is lost:

Font
Font Size
Font Color
Underline
Double Underline
Strikethrough
Superscript
Subscript

Additional query words: XL2000

Keywords : xlformat
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug