Add Reminders to Excel using comments
Phillip Matlock

If you use Microsoft Excel to create a grade book like I do, you can keep reminders of student calls or notes to yourself by using the insert comment command that is built into Excel.

1. Right click the cell you would like to insert the comment in and a dropdown menu will materialize
2. Select “insert comments” a callout screen will appear
3. Type the information into the callout screen
4. Once you finish select another cell and the callout screen will close.

If you wish to edit the information repeat the steps but select “edit comment” edit the information and close the callout screen by selecting another cell.

I find this very useful when a student telephones me that they will be late for class or will not be in class that day. I also like to give each of my class spreadsheet tabs a different color. This helps me locate them in a hurry. This is easy to do:

1. Right click the tab and a color panel will appear
2. Select the color you like and the tab will be underlined.
3. Click another tab and the underlined tab will be the color you selected.

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Phillip C. Matlock