Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Microsoft 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: Adjusting Comment Printouts.
If you use comments in your worksheets quite a bit, you may wonder if there is a way to print the comments, but without the name and colon that normally preface every comment. Unfortunately, there is no built-in way to accomplish this in Excel. However, a macro can be used to quickly pull all the comments from a worksheet and place them in their own worksheet. This worksheet could then be printed, as it would amount to a compendium of all the comments. The macro is as follows:
Please Note:
This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Microsoft 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
Sub Workbook_BeforePrint(Cancel As Boolean)
myCount = 0
For Each c In ActiveSheet.Comments
myCount = myCount + 1
myComment = ActiveSheet.Comments(myCount).Text
Sheets(2).Range("a1").Offset(myCount, 0).Value = _
Mid(myComment,InStr(myComment, Chr(10)))
Next
End Sub
This macro places the comments on the second worksheet in a workbook, so if you want them on a different worksheet (so you don't overwrite information already on the second sheet) you will have to make a modification to the Sheets(2) object.
Note, as well, that the macro name is Workbook_BeforePrint. This means that the macro will run every time you go to print your worksheet.
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ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (9602) applies to Microsoft Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Microsoft 365. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Excel here: Adjusting Comment Printouts.
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