I've been an Excel user for quite a while and have many spreadsheets, I work in Excel as a standalone user on a daily basis. As such I do not have a need for the new Comments feature and prefer the Notes approach to annotating my worksheets. Furthermore, I'm using an Excel 2010 on my Windows 8.1 Pro laptop, so I lose all Notes from my laptop when I transfer the file to my Android smart phone. And viewing the Comments created by Excel Mobile on my laptop is cumbersome because of the warning caveat displayed at the beginning of each Comment/Note.

Please consider the following suggestions:
1. Add a function to convert all Comments into Notes.
2. Provide a settings option to only use Notes instead of Comments when annotating a worksheet.

Also please remember your user community: There are standalone users who do not care about collaborative and sharing features, ideally Microsoft will support both types of user communities. :-)

Thank you in advance for your time and consideration of this request.

Regards,
Byron Siegel

I work for a landscape firm. At any one time we deal with 8 customers. However, sometimes the clients had their quotes going back last year or months before they become a client. It was getting confusing tracking through folders trying to find the right quote, additional emails and images of the clients garden. So I have set up a spreadsheet with all our customers names on it. With the details of each customer. At the end of each line I have embedded PDFS linking to correspondence received from that customer. As the information was stored in different places and received at different times and it takes ages to find it. All I now have to do is click on the PDF embed files and it takes me straight to the relevant file. This makes me super quick if on a telephone call to the client. I even save Important emails. So all the information is in one place by client. However, my Director is out in the field. He could really do with access to the same information I have. So when he's on call to the customer he has all the linked files to view on his iPhone. This would save him from calling me and sending files over. Also, I am part-time so he could view quotes at his leisure when I am not around. Therefore I am asking Excel to create it so that my director can open the excel document via the cloud and view the embedded PDF files from that excel document via the cloud. That way he has the information out in the field as do I in the office.
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Emma

Hi Team,

I have an Excel file saved in my employee OneDrive account. I typically access it from my work laptop with Windows 10 installed, but also like to access the same file via the OneDrive and/or the Excel app on my devices with iOS or iPadOS installed. It would be fantastic if the “live” document/file behavior were the same across operating systems. Currently, if multiple people with Windows are accessing the same “live” file, changes reflect immediately. However, if I access the same “live” file via different operating systems (iOS, iPadOS, or Windows 10, the changes take time to reflect and sometimes fail to save. Are there efforts/plans in place to update/improve this feature?

Thank you!