Microsoft KB Archive/213638

= How to create a macro that counts comments =

Article ID: 213638

Article Last Modified on 1/24/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Excel 2007
 * Microsoft Office Excel 2003
 * Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q213638





For a Microsoft Excel 97 and earlier and Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition and earlier version of this article, see 141564.



SUMMARY
In Microsoft Excel, you can insert notes (comments) when you do not want to display comments on your worksheet or when you want to print comments on a separate sheet. The "More Information" section of this article contains sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macros you can use to count how many comments are in a worksheet.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements.

Sample macro 1: To count comments in a selection
' This code counts the number of comments in a selection.

Sub CountNotesSelection counter = 0 'You must select the range first z = Selection.Address For Each x In ActiveSheet.Range(z) If Len(x.NoteText) > 0 Then counter = counter + 1 Next MsgBox counter End Sub

Sample macro 2: To count comments for the entire worksheet
' This code counts the number of comments for the used range on a ' worksheet.

Sub CountNotesSheet counter = 0 For Each x In ActiveSheet.UsedRange If Len(x.NoteText) > 0 Then counter = counter + 1 Next MsgBox counter End Sub

Additional query words: cellnote textnote XL2000 text note annotation xl2002 XL2003 XL2007

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