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In Excel, NVDA reports "Has comment" when a cell has a note. NVDA should report "Has note" instead #18709

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@Qchristensen

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In Excel, when you press shift+F2, you create a "note". When you press NVDA+alt+c twice quickly, NVDA opens this text in a dialog titled "note". When you navigate around Excel and get to a cell with a note, NVDA reports "Has comment".

The problem with this is that Excel has a SEPARATE feature called "comments" which work differently to notes.

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NVDA should report "has note" rather than "has comment".

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What Excel now calls "Notes", used to be called "Comments" (hence saying "has comment" and the "C" in the shortcut to read them). Notes are essentially a single annotation attached to a cell, and any cell can have one of these. Comments on the other hand, are more like comments in Word - they have your name against them and other users with access to the workbook can reply to comments. Excel's comments have other accessibility problems, but see separate issues for those.

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