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How to export comments from Excel to Word?

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-07-30

For Excel users, inserting comments into the cells is a common task, sometimes, you need to copy and paste these comments to a Word document for some purpose. Of course, you can copy and paste the comment to the Word one by one, but this is a tedious and time-consuming job. Is there any way to export all the comments from Excel to Word at once?

Export comments from current worksheet to Word with VBA code


Export comments from current worksheet to Word with VBA code

Unfortunately, Excel doesn’t provide the feature to copy and paste all the comments to Word at once. However, with the following VBA code, you can quickly export all comments of active worksheet to the Word document.

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. Click Insert > Module, and paste the following code in the Module Window.

VBA code: Export comments from current worksheet to Word

Sub CopyCommentsToWord()
'Update 20140325
Dim xComment As Comment
Dim wApp As Object
On Error Resume Next
Set wApp = GetObject(, "Word.Application")
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
  Err.Clear
  Set wApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
End If
wApp.Visible = True
wApp.Documents.Add DocumentType:=0
For Each xComment In Application.ActiveSheet.Comments
    wApp.Selection.TypeText xComment.Parent.Address & vbTab & xComment.Text
    wApp.Selection.TypeParagraph
Next
Set wApp = Nothing
End Sub

3. Then press F5 key to run this code, and all of the comments in the active worksheet have been exported to a new Word document with itscell address. See screenshot:

a screenshot of exporting comments from Excel to Word


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