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Adding comments

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For good worksheet documentation and just to help others who might be using this workbook and maybe even yourself at later date, adding a comment to a cell is very helpful. For example, maybe in this worksheet the number in cell G2, the June Sales expense is questionable. The person who handles this information, who gave it to you is named Joan. So, anybody else who uses this might want to check with Joan. So, you're going to add a comment here. You can press Shift+F2 or right-click and "Insert a Comment". Usually, you'll see your name here followed by this and so we'll simply type in, for example, here, "Check with Joan to see if this is correct". Your comment can be quite long too. As we click away from this, we see a red triangle in the cell. Slide back over it, we see it again. So, that's your visual clue as to whether there is a comment in the cell. If you were to print this worksheet you wouldn't see the red triangle there. Now, there might be another one over here, maybe this…

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