Comment in excel is a way of annotate calculation logic of certain measure or KPI. It will be very useful to transfer data manipulation logic user to user. As a results, there is extension use of comments take place in a workbook. It will be very difficult to check each and every comments if comments scattered in different ranges in the workbook. Thus, it will be a quite problematic task to gather information of all the comments on the singe place.
In this situation a simple excel macro will be very helpful to gather all comments in a list. Using excel macro you can list all the comments within a minute.
Here is the code which will be very useful to list down all the comments from the workbook:
Sub List_All_Comments()
' Author: Dreams24
' Written for VBA Tricks and tips blog
' https://www.vbatricksntips.com
'Declare Variable
Dim nSht As Worksheet
Dim Sht As Worksheet
Dim Rng As Range
Dim i As Integer
Dim cell As Variant
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
'Add new sheet in the workbook with "Comment List" name
Set nSht = Sheets.Add
nSht.Name = "Comment List"
nSht.Range("A1") = "Sheet Name"
nSht.Range("B1") = "Cell Address"
nSht.Range("C1") = "Comments"
nSht.Range("D1") = "Cell value"
i = 2
'Loop through all sheets in a workbook
For Each Sht In ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets
On Error Resume Next
'Set Rng for comment ranges
Set Rng = Sht.Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeComments)
If Not Rng Is Nothing Then
'Loop through all comment ranges
For Each cell In Rng
nSht.Range("A" & i) = Sht.Name
nSht.Range("B" & i) = cell.Address
nSht.Range("C" & i) = cell.Comment.Text
nSht.Range("C" & i).WrapText = False
nSht.Range("D" & i) = cell.Value
i = i + 1
Next cell
End If
Set Rng = Nothing
Next Sht
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
Application.DisplayAlerts = True
MsgBox "All comments are listed in Comment List Sheet!!!", vbInformation
End Sub