Excel and PowerPoint Only Use Discussions About the Document

ID: Q216931

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Office 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you create discussions in Excel 2000 or PowerPoint 2000, you do not have the choice to create a discussion at a marked location within the document. To work around this issue, use the following procedures.

In Excel

When you post your discussion, put the sheet and/or cell reference into the text of the discussion.

In PowerPoint

Open the document as the author, and add notes to the Notes pane.

-OR-

When you post your discussion, put the slide number into the text of the discussion.

For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q217080 Difference Between Discussions In and About a Document

Add the appropriate boilerplate.

CAUSE

This is by design in both cases.

RESOLUTION

MORE INFORMATION

You do not have the choice to create a discussion at a marked location within Excel Worksheets or PowerPoint Slides because Excel's structure allows for hundreds of Worksheets in a Workbook, and several thousand cells for each worksheet. Because of the complexity of Excel's design, Office Discussions cannot apply to each Worksheet or cell in a given workbook.

PowerPoint also has the ability to create several Slides in any given Presentation. Office Discussions cannot apply to each Slide in a Presentation.

Additional query words: OFF2000 front page


Keywords          : kbdta 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbprb

Last Reviewed: May 13, 1999