How To Add Anonymous Comments To An Existing Shared Excel

Question

Hi All,

Hope your morning is going well, whatever the weather is.

TL;DR: I'd like to add anonymous comments to particular cells in an existing shared excel created by someone else.

Potential Solutions to Explore: My initial thought - This may need a formula, I'm not too familiar with this part of excel but am more than interested in learning. Or this may be a feature request...

Complete Picture:

We're completing a Walk the World competition for work, and are recording steps in an excel.

The excel was created by one of my colleagues.

We've been separated into teams.

It is not set as anonymous, as we're keeping the document open to collaboration between teams. However you can anonymise your name if you'd like (i.e. put a different alias or use initials).

The issue is when I add a comment it comes up with my name, I do not believe there's a way currently to anonymise comments in a shared excel document.

Any guidance would be most appreciated.

Kind regards,

YD

Unfortunately I cannot seem to be able to add images to this questions (I've tried dragging and using the picture upload option). Potentially I could email this across unless there's an easier way to do this?

Answer 1

I haven't met such issue. Hope other member in this community can give suggestions on it. It maybe disabled by author.

Answer 2

You may try selecting a cell without comments on it. Or delete the previous comments, then add new notes.

Answer 3

It looks like the screen shots are working when I reply!

Above is the problem.

Below is some generic info about the excel file:

Answer 4

There is no such way to Anonymous Comments. You may use notes instead of Comments which allows you change the author name.

Answer 5

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately there is no option to add notes in this excel, please see the options I have in my reply screenshot when I right click... bit of an odd one, not sure why notes is not there.