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Clear or Remove comments in Excel




Need to clear or remove all comments in a workbook?

If time is not a constraint, comments can be deleted manually.

To do it manually, is to right click on the cell that has a comment and click "delete comment."

It’s not so hard, right?

What if there are 10 worksheets, in the workbook and every worksheet has 20 or more comments?

Deleting the comments manually, would not be fun.

VBA is an ideal way to clear or remove comments the easy and quick way.

Here's a simple VBA code to do it.

Don't run the code on production, and if the workbook and the comments are quite important. But if you exactly know what you are doing, go ahead.

Or save a copy of the workbook and do the test.

Once the comments are deleted it cannot be undone.

Copy and paste the code to the VBA editor.

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Sub Delete_all_comments()



'VBA code below will delete all the comments

'For loop statement is 1 to 5

'Adjust the counter to the number of worksheets on the workbook



For i = 1 To 5



With Worksheets(i)



   Worksheets(i).Activate

   ActiveSheet.Cells.ClearComments



  End With



Next i



'Inform user operation is done

MsgBox "All comments gone"


End Sub

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