Click a cell elsewhere in the worksheet to exit editing mode for the comment.

Click OK to close the Format Comment dialog box.

Click OK to close the Fill Effects dialog box.

Select the picture and click the Insert button.

Use the controls in the dialog box to locate the picture you want in the comment or note.

Excel displays the Select Picture dialog box, which looks very similar to a standard Open dialog box. The Picture tab of the Fill Effects dialog box.

Make sure the Picture tab is displayed.

Excel displays the Fill Effects dialog box.

Click the Color drop-down list and choose the Fill Effects option.

The Colors and Lines tab of the Format Comment dialog box.

Make sure the Colors and Lines tab is displayed.

Excel displays the Format Comment dialog box.

Choose Format Comment from the Context menu.

You can tell if you will be right-clicking the border because the mouse pointer will look like a four-headed arrow when you are hovering over the border.) (Make sure you are actually right-clicking the border, not the contents of the cell itself.

Right-click on the comment or note border.

If the comment or note is not normally visible, right-click the cell and choose Edit Comment or Edit Note from the resulting Context menu.

The following steps apply both to earlier versions of Excel using comments and to Excel for Office 365 using notes: Notes work like comments in earlier versions of Excel. Comments are now threaded allowing users to have discussions with each other regarding the data. Note that Microsoft changed the way comments work in Excel in Office 365.

This may sound like a confusing contradiction, but Excel allows you to actually format the comment, independent of the text contained in the comment, so that it is 'filled' with a picture. There is no way to paste a picture into a comment (as you do in Word), but there is a way to make a picture appear within a comment. She wonders if there is a way to paste a picture into an Excel comment. She's tried to do this in Excel, but without success.

In Word, Leticia notes that you can paste a picture into a comment.

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