Explanation of Cell Comments?

[GreenTree]

I have a project I'm working on where I'd like to enter comments into a bunch of cells by means of visual basic instructions. I can do the really basic stuff by recording macros, but there's LOTS of stuff there that I don't understand very well. (Being unable to play back some of the macros that I record doesn't really help!) Is there a tutorial out there someplace that explains the various things you can do with cell comments, particularly in terms of making the comment block a particular, predictable size, and formatting the text within the comment?

Many thanks,

G.T.

[geekgirlau]

The object browser is a good place to start, as is Help for the comment object. For example, the following text creates a comment and sets the width and height. You can set a number of the formatting options using the Shape property, but although Shape has a number of "TextEffect" properties, they seem to apply only to WordArt objects so I don't know whether Font can be changed.

[vba]
With Worksheets(1).Range("e5").AddComment
.Visible = False
.Text "reviewed on " & Date
.Shape.Width = 100
.Shape.Height = 100
.Shape.ThreeD.Visible = True
End With
[/vba]